cooktop

noun

"cooktop" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“cooktop” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An assembly of burners for cooking.

Corpus desk

Index EN-cooktop · cooktop · English

cooktop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "C" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for cooktop
PropertyValue
Headwordcooktop
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cooktop” in English

cooktopsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cooktop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for cooktop in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From cook + top. The correct English form is cooktop, spelled C-O-O-K-T-O-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    An assembly of burners for cooking.
  2. 2
    An assembly of burners for cooking.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cooktop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Holonyms: cookstove, stove, range
  2. These include such precautions as swimming only in the company of a responsible adult who knows about your condition and how to manage a seizure; getting your doctor to assess whether or not you should drive; having showers rather than baths, and leaving the bathroom door unlocked; using guards for open fires, radiators and cooktops.

Etymology

From cook + top.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cooktop"?
"cooktop" is spelled C-O-O-K-T-O-P.
What does "cooktop" mean?
As a noun, "cooktop" means: An assembly of burners for cooking.
What is the origin of the word "cooktop"?
From cook + top. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list