cookery
/ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/
"cookery" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cookery” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #24,714 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #24,714
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 13
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cookery |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,714 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cookery” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for cookery is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #24,714 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cookery, with forms such as "ccookery", "cokery", and "cokoery". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "Cooper", "cooler", "cooley", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery. The correct English form is cookery, spelled C-O-O-K-E-R-Y.
Definition
- 1The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
- 2A delicacy; a dainty.
- 3Cooking tools or apparatus.
- 4A place where cooking is done.
Etymology
From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.
Synonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ccookery,cokery,cokoery,cooekry,cookerry,cookeryy,cookeyr,cookkery,cookrey,ocokery
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cookery - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “cookery”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-O-K-E-R-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Cooper” - see the side-by-side comparison. cookery vs Cooper
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.