cosseted
adjective, verb
cosseted is an adjective meaning “Pampered” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-S-S-E-T-E-D, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does cosseted mean?
adjective
- 1
Pampered.
a cosseted childhood
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of cosset
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of cosseted
- more cosseted comparative
- most cosseted superlative
- cossetted
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is cosseted?
Cosseted appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th 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).
Cosseted in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pampered:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | verwöhnt, verhätschelt |
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.