cohort

Other forms of cohort

plural

cohorts·

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 cohort

What does cohort mean?

cohort means "a company of companions or supporters". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cohort?

cohort has 2 syllables: co-hort. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊhɔɹt/.

What is another word for cohort?

Close synonyms include age group, age bracket. 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 cohort a common word?

cohort is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.