cocktail

Other forms of cocktail

plural

cocktails·

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 cocktail

What does cocktail mean?

cocktail means "a short mixed drink". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cocktail?

cocktail has 2 syllables: cock-tail. The stress falls on "cock". In IPA it is /ˈkɑkˌteɪl/.

Is cocktail a common word?

cocktail is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 cocktail?

14 words rhyme with cocktail. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.