A novel supersonic plasma spraying was used to prepare rare earth oxides doped CoCrW coatings. X-ray diffractometer, contact surface profiler, hardness tester, micro-friction and -wear tester and environmental scanning electron microscope equipped with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy were employed to investigate the phase structure, surface morphology, microhardness, friction and wear properties of the sprayed coatings. The results show that rare earth oxide doped coatings have high microhardness and excellent tribological properties. Furthermore, the friction and wear mechanisms of sprayed coatings are also discussed.supersonic plasma spraying, CoCrW coating, rare earth oxide, tribological property CoCrW coatings with high oxidation resistance [1] , hardness and wear resistance have been used in the aeronautical field [2,3] . In the literature, CoCrW coatings are usually prepared with high-velocity oxy fuel (HVOF) [1] , plasma spraying (PS) [4,5] , and vacuum melting method (VMM) [6] . While CoCrW coatings prepared with supersonic plasma spraying (SPS) have not been reported because SPS is a novel technology.Compared with HVOF, PS and VMM methods, SPS has higher process temperature (up to 10000℃) and gas velocity (600 m/s) [7] . As hot spraying coating properties and microstructure are principally determined by the temperature and velocity of the sprayed droplets when impinging on the substrate, SPS is promising to gain higher strength, hardness and lower porosity than those of HVOF, PS and VMM methods.In this study, a kind of rare earth oxide doped CoCrW coatings are prepared with this novel SPS method and the wear resistance at low load is presented.