cookie

Other forms of cookie

plural

cookies·

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 cookie

What does cookie mean?

cookie means "any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cookie?

cookie has 2 syllables: cook-ie. The stress falls on "cook". In IPA it is /ˈkʊki/.

What is another word for cookie?

Close synonyms include cooky, biscuit, cooky. 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 cookie a common word?

cookie 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.