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cot

/kɑt/noun

cot is spelled C-O-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cot means “A simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cot is cots.

How many letters and syllables are in cot?

Letters3: C-O-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.6 times per million words; the 22,073rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is cot?

Cot appears 1.6 times per million words in written English, the 22,073rd 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).

How do you pronounce cot?

  • UK /kɒt/
  • British /kɔt/
  • US /kɑt/

Cot has one syllable (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: En-au-cot.ogg, En-us-cot.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with cot

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

caught vs cot0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with cot?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cot from its last stressed vowel (/ɑt/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: oct.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of cot

  • cots plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does cot mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    CanadaUSA simple bed, especially one for portable or temporary purposes.

  2. 2

    CommonwealthIrelandUKA bed for infants or small children, with high, often slatted, often moveable sides.

  3. 3

    A wooden bed frame, slung by its corners from a beam, in which officers slept before the introduction of bunks.

  4. 4

    archaicA cottage or small homestead.

  5. 5

    A pen, coop, or similar shelter for small domestic animals, such as sheep or pigeons.

  6. 6

    A small, crudely-formed boat.

  7. 7

    A cover or sheath; a fingerstall.

    a roller cot (the clothing of a drawing roller in a spinning frame)

  8. 8

    obsoleteA man who does household work normally associated with women.

  9. 9

    datedvulva; vagina.

noun

as CoT
  1. 1

    Initialism of chain of thought.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Cot in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlit de camp (portable or temporary bed), lit de bébé, huche (bed for children)
GermanFeldbett (portable or temporary bed), Kinderbett (bed for children)
Portuguesecatre (portable or temporary bed), berço (bed for children), casebre (homestead)
Spanishcatre, catrera, colombina, catre de tijera (portable or temporary bed), cuna, pesebre (bed for children)

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 cot come from?

Borrowed from Hindi खाट (khāṭ), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀔𑀝𑁆𑀝𑀸 (khaṭṭā), from Sanskrit खट्वा (khaṭvā, “bedstead”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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