cocker

Other forms of cocker

plural

cockers·

past tense

cockerred·

present participle

cockerring·

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 cocker

What does cocker mean?

cocker means "a small breed with wavy silky hair; originally developed in England". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cocker?

cocker has 2 syllables: coc-ker. The stress falls on "coc". In IPA it is /ˈkɑkɚ/.

What is another word for cocker?

Close synonyms include cocker spaniel, English cocker spaniel, pamper, featherbed, cosset. 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 cocker a common word?

cocker 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.