cookbook
/ˈkʊkˌbʊk/noun
cookbook is spelled C-O-O-K-B-O-O-K: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “cookbook vs recipe book” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, cookbook means “A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cookbook is cookbooks.
How many letters and syllables are in cookbook?
| Letters | 8: C-O-O-K-B-O-O-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cookbook?
Cookbook appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 cookbook?
- US /ˈkʊkˌbʊk/
- British /ˈkɵkˌbɵk/
- /ˈkuːkˌbuːk/
Cookbook has 2 syllables (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: En-us-cookbook.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with cookbook
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: cook book (one word or two), recipe book.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cookbook?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cookbook from its last stressed vowel (/ʊkbʊk/):
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).
Forms of cookbook
- cookbooks plural
- cook book
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cookbook mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A book or an encyclopedia of recipes and cookery tips.
They inherited an interesting nineteenth-century cookbook from their grandparents. It tells how to render lard.
- 2
Any book or set of strategies and tips.
Near-synonym: playbook
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cookbook in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense book of cooking recipes:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | livre de cuisine, livre de recettes |
| German | Kochbuch, Rezeptbuch |
| Portuguese | livro de receitas, livro de cozinha |
| Spanish | libro de recetas, recetario, libro de cocina |
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.
Where does cookbook come from?
From cook + book; possibly also a calque of German Kochbuch, from kochen (“cook”) + Buch (“book”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).