cowry

Questions about cowry

What does cowry mean?

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

How many syllables are in cowry?

cowry has 2 syllables and divides as co-wry 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 cowry?

Close synonyms include cowrie. 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 cowry a common word?

cowry 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.