# cooker

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkʊkɚ/ · frequency rank #18,522

## Definitions
1. A cookstove.
2. An appliance or utensil for cooking food.
3. One who cooks.
4. Ellipsis of cooking apple.
5. A person who makes or uses illicit drugs, especially methamphetamine or cannabis.
6. The container in which recreational drugs are prepared.
7. A person who is cooked in the head; a crazy person.
8. A conspiracy theorist, especially one who is involved in politics.

## Etymology
From cook + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (patient suffix) (apple; one who is cooked).

## Easily confused with
- **cover** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cover)
- **cooks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cooks)
- **Croke** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-croke)
- **cower** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cower)
- **corner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-corner)
- **copper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-copper)
- **Cooper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cooper)
- **cookie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cookie)
- **cooler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cooler)
- **cooled** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cooled)
- **cooley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cooley)
- **cotter** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cotter)
- **Cooney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cooney)
- **copier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-copier)
- **Croker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-croker)
- **corker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-corker)
- **Cowper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cowper)
- **cookies** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cookies)
- **crooked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-crooked)
- **coroner** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-coroner)

## Common misspellings (7)
`ccooker`, `cokoer`, `cooekr`, `cookerr`, `cookker`, `cookre`, `ocoker`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/cooker