Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

co-occurrence

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: co-oc-cur-rence
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation.

Uncountable

noun

An instance of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; coexistence or coincidence.

Countable

Example Sentences

"Roughly speaking, people tend to choose the most probable interpretation, according to any factor that they might consider, such as the likelihood of the meaning of each in the world, or the frequency of co-occurrences of subsequences of words, or several other factors."

Usage

Inflected Forms

co-occurrences (plural) cooccurrence (alternative) coöccurrence (alternative)

Phrases

co-occurrence network

Frequently Paired Words

coinstantiation intersection overlap

Synonyms

concurrence coincidence conjunction accompaniment concomitant attendant

Questions

What does co-occurrence mean?: The fact of a thing occurring simultaneously with something else; correlation.

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