cosmo
noun
cosmo is a noun meaning “A cosmopolitan, a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice, and cranberry juice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-S-M-O and has 2 syllables, and it appears 1.5 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Cosmo, the name). The plural of cosmo is cosmos.
What does cosmo mean?
noun
- 1
informalA cosmopolitan, a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice, and cranberry juice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce cosmo?
- US
Cosmo 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cosmo-.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cosmo-2.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-cosmo.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cosmo
- cosm-
- cosmos plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cosmo?
Cosmo appears 1.5 times per million words in written English, the 23,253rd most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Cosmo, the name.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Cosmo in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense universe, world:
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 cosmo come from?
Clipping.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).