cottage
cot·tage/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/noun, verb
cottage is spelled C-O-T-T-A-G-E: 7 letters and 2 syllables (cot·tage). It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cottage means “A small house” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cottage is cottages.
How many letters and syllables are in cottage?
| Letters | 7: C-O-T-T-A-G-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: cot·tage |
| In writing | 10 times per million words; the 7,121st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is cottage?
Cottage appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 7,121st 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 cottage?
- UK /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/
- /ˈkɑt.ɪd͡ʒ/
- [ˈkɑɾ.ɪd͡ʒ]
Cottage has 2 syllables, split cot·tage in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-cottage.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cottage
- cottages plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- cottaging participle, present
- cottaged participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cottage mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small house.
- 2
A seasonal home of any size or stature, a recreational home or a home in a remote location.
Most cottages in the area were larger and more elaborate than my home.
- 3
UKarchaicslangA public lavatory.
- 4
A meeting place for homosexual men.
verb
- 1
To stay at a seasonal home, to go cottaging.
- 2
To have homosexual sex in a public lavatory; to practice cottaging.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cottage in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a small house; a cot; a hut:
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 cottage come from?
Late Middle English, from Anglo-Norman cotage and Medieval Latin cotagium, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“cottage, hut”) + -age (“surrounding property”), from Old Norse kot, from Proto-Germanic *kutą, *kuta- (“shed”), probably of non-Indo-European origin, possibly borrowed from Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Uralic *kota (“hut, tent”), probably akin to Proto-Iranian *kátah (“house; roof”). However, also compare Dutch and English hut.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).