cosset

Other forms of cosset

past tense

cossetted·

present participle

cossetting·

third person

cossets·

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 cosset

What does cosset mean?

cosset means "treat with excessive indulgence".

How many syllables are in cosset?

cosset has 2 syllables: cos-set. The stress falls on "cos". In IPA it is /ˈkɑsət/.

What is another word for cosset?

Close synonyms include pamper, featherbed, cocker, baby, coddle. 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 cosset a common word?

cosset is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.