cos

Other forms of cos

plural

coses·

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 cos

What does cos mean?

cos means "ratio of the adjacent side to the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cos?

cos has 1 syllable: cos. In IPA it is /ˈkɔs/.

What is another word for cos?

Close synonyms include cosine, cos lettuce, romaine, romaine lettuce. 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 cos a common word?

cos is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 cos?

1 word rhymes with cos. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.