Skip to main content
PlainSpell

cookie

/ˈkʊki/noun, verb

cookie is spelled C-O-O-K-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cookie means “A small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cookie is cookies.

How many letters and syllables are in cookie?

Letters6: C-O-O-K-I-E
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing12 times per million words; the 6,347th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 cookie?

Cookie appears 12 times per million words in written English, the 6,347th 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 cookie?

  • /ˈkʊki/
  • /ˈkuːki/
  • /ˈkʉke/

Cookie 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-au-cookie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cookie

  • cookies plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • cookieing participle, present
  • cookied participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cookie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUSA small, flat, baked good which is either crisp or soft but firm.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthUKA sweet baked good (as in the previous sense) usually having chocolate chips, fruit, nuts, etc. baked into it.

  3. 3

    ScotlandA bun.

  4. 4

    An HTTP cookie.

  5. 5

    A magic cookie.

  6. 6

    datedslangAn attractive young woman.

  7. 7

    slangvulgarThe vulva.

    Cookie put his butt to sleep, now he callin' me Nyquil.

  8. 8

    slangvulgarThe anus of a man.

  9. 9

    slangA cucoloris.

  10. 10

    colloquialdatedAffectionate name for a cook.

verb

  1. 1

    To send a cookie to (a user, computer, etc.).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cookie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbiscuit (small, flat baked good – see also biscuit), cookie (sweet baked good (as in the previous sense)…), poupée (young, attractive woman), moule, chatte (slang: female genitalia)
GermanKeks, Plätzchen (small, flat baked good – see also biscuit), Cookie (sweet baked good (as in the previous sense)…)
Portuguesebiscoito, bolacha (small, flat baked good – see also biscuit)
Spanishgalleta (small, flat baked good – see also biscuit), bombón, muñeca (young, attractive woman)

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 cookie come from?

Borrowed from Dutch koekie, dialectal diminutive of koek (“cake”), from Proto-Germanic *kōkô (compare German Low German Kookje (“biscuit, cookie, cracker”), Low German Kook (“cake”), German Kuchen (“cake”)). More at cake. Not related to English cook. The computing senses derive from magic cookie.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What to look up after cookie