cooze

/kuːz/

//kuːz// noun

"cooze" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
5
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pussy, vagina.

Corpus desk

Index EN-cooze · cooze · English

cooze · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MID 5 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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Key facts for cooze
PropertyValue
Headwordcooze
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/kuːz/
Letters5
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cooze” in English

coozesits 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

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

Zero misspellings are on record for cooze in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

Etymologically, the entry records: Uncertain, but compare Danish kusse (“vagina”), Persian کس (kos, “vagina”), vernacular Arabic كُس (kus, “vagina”), and Northern Kurdish qûz (“vagina”). The term may have been introduced to the United States after the Second World War by servicemen who fough… The correct English form is cooze, spelled C-O-O-Z-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pussy, vagina.
  2. 2
    A woman (often when viewed as an object of sexual desire).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. "It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze," Don Hagarty said.
  2. We kissed a lot, for as long as an hour sometimes, standing in the hall of her dorm, the endless slow tongue friction, the sweet smell of her, my sobbing hard-on moist in my tight undies, her cooze surely sopping.

Etymology

Uncertain, but compare Danish kusse (“vagina”), Persian کس (kos, “vagina”), vernacular Arabic كُس (kus, “vagina”), and Northern Kurdish qûz (“vagina”). The term may have been introduced to the United States after the Second World War by servicemen who fought in north Africa, but it already existed as a slang term in the blues community as early as 1929.

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 "cooze"?
"cooze" is spelled C-O-O-Z-E. The IPA pronunciation is /kuːz/.
What does "cooze" mean?
As a noun, "cooze" means: Pussy, vagina.
How do you pronounce "cooze"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cooze" is /kuːz/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What is the origin of the word "cooze"?
Uncertain, but compare Danish kusse (“vagina”), Persian کس (kos, “vagina”), vernacular Arabic كُس (kus, “vagina”), and Northern Kurdish qûz (“vagina”). The term may have been introduced to the United States after the Second World War by servicemen... 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