cooked
/kʊkt/adjective, verb
cooked is spelled C-O-O-K-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, cooked means “Prepared by cooking” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cooked?
| Letters | 6: C-O-O-K-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is cooked?
Cooked appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 cooked?
- /kʊkt/
Cooked 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: En-us-cooked.ogg, En-au-cooked.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cooked
- more cooked comparative
- most cooked superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cooked mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Prepared by cooking.
- 2
slangCorrupted by conversion through a text format, requiring uncooking to be properly listenable.
- 3
Partially or wholly fabricated, falsified.
- 4
slangDone in, exhausted, pooped.
- 5
slangIn trouble; in a hopeless situation.
- 6
AustraliaslangInebriated: drunk, high, or stoned.
- 7
Hungover.
- 8
Brain-damaged from drug use.
Don't bother talking to that guy–he's cooked from all the coke he used to do.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of cook
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cooked in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cuit , foutu |
| German | gekocht , am Arsch |
| Portuguese | cozinhado , frito |
| Spanish | cocinado, cocido , frito, frito pescadito, frito frito pescadito |
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 cooked come from?
From the past tense of the verb cook.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).