cooze
/kuːz/
"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
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cooze |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kuːz/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cooze” in English
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
- 1Pussy, vagina.
- 2A woman (often when viewed as an object of sexual desire).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cooze appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"It's a lot like a dead strumpet with maggots squirming out of her cooze," Don Hagarty said.
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.