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cocked

/kɑkt/adjective, verb

cocked is spelled C-O-C-K-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, cocked means “Drunk” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in cocked?

Letters6: C-O-C-K-E-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 31,549th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cocked?

Cocked appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 31,549th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce cocked?

  • US /kɑkt/
  • UK /kɒkt/

Cocked has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cocked.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with cocked?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cocked from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkt/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

What does cocked mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    informalDrunk.

    He is totally cocked right now, about thirteen beers into his 12-pack.

  2. 2

    slangvulgarHaving a specified form of penis or a specific number of penises.

    The large-cocked pornstar came into shot.

  3. 3

    Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.

  4. 4

    Of a die: having landed in a tilted position, rather than flat.

  5. 5

    slanted or tipped.

verb

  1. 1

    simple past and past participle of cock (a form of cock)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cocked in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbourré, beurré, pété comme un Petit LU, rond comme une queue de pelle, gris, cassé (drunk)
Germanbesoffen, dicht (drunk), -schwanzig (having a specified form of penis or a specific…), gespannt (firearms: having the cock lifted or prepared to…)
Spanishpedo (drunk)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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