cognac

1. 1.

   high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France

   Broaderbrandy

Other forms of cognac

plural

cognacs·

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 cognac

What does cognac mean?

cognac means "high quality grape brandy distilled in the Cognac district of France".

How many syllables are in cognac?

cognac has 2 syllables: cog-nac. The stress falls on "cog". In IPA it is /ˈkoʊˌnjæk/.

Is cognac a common word?

cognac is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.