cohabit

Other forms of cohabit

past tense

cohabitted·

present participle

cohabitting·

third person

cohabits·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cohabit

What does cohabit mean?

cohabit means "share living quarters; usually said of people who are not married and live together as a couple". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cohabit?

cohabit has 3 syllables: co-hab-it. The stress falls on "hab". In IPA it is /koʊˈhæbɪt/.

What is another word for cohabit?

Close synonyms include live together, shack up, coexist. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cohabit a common word?

cohabit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.