cohere

Other forms of cohere

past tense

cohered·

present participle

cohering·

third person

coheres·

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 cohere

What does cohere mean?

cohere means "come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cohere?

cohere has 2 syllables: co-here. The stress falls on "here". In IPA it is /koʊˈhɪɹ/.

What is another word for cohere?

Close synonyms include cling, cleave, adhere, stick. 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 cohere a common word?

cohere 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.

What rhymes with cohere?

1 word rhymes with cohere. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.