# cookery

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈkʊk(ə)ɹi/ · frequency rank #24,714

## Definitions
1. The art and practice of preparing food for consumption, especially by the application of heat; cooking.
2. A delicacy; a dainty.
3. Cooking tools or apparatus.
4. A place where cooking is done.

## Etymology
From Middle English cokerie, kokery, equivalent to cook + -ery.

## Easily confused with
- **Cooper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-cooper)
- **cooler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-cooler)
- **cooley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-cooley)
- **Cooney** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-cooney)
- **Croker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-croker)
- **corker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-corker)
- **crockery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cookery-vs-crockery)
- **coker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/coker-vs-cookery)
- **cooked** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooked-vs-cookery)
- **cooker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cooker-vs-cookery)
- **cocker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/cocker-vs-cookery)
- **choker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/choker-vs-cookery)
- **Connery** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/connery-vs-cookery)

## Common misspellings (10)
`ccookery`, `cokery`, `cokoery`, `cooekry`, `cookerry`, `cookeryy`, `cookeyr`, `cookkery`, `cookrey`, `ocokery`

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