cow's milk
"cow-s-milk" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cow's milk” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, and used as food by humans.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cow-s-milk · cow's milk · English
cow's milk · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | cow's milk |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cow's milk” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cow's milk is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, and used as food by humans.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cow's milk, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is cow's milk, spelled C-O-W-'-S- -M-I-L-K.
Definition
- 1A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, and used as food by humans.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cow's milk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The child is taken off the breast or bottle and fed soya milk or one of the new lactose-free cow’s milks.
With so many milks on the market these days, how do you decide which is best for you? Most have a similar protein and calcium content, with the main difference being fat content. Here is a brief run-down of cow’s milks: […]
This word in other languages
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.