cowrie

Questions about cowrie

What does cowrie mean?

cowrie means "any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells".

How many syllables are in cowrie?

cowrie has 2 syllables and divides as co-wrie under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cowrie?

Close synonyms include cowry. 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 cowrie a common word?

cowrie 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.