cow's milk

noun

"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.

Key facts for cow's milk
PropertyValue
Headwordcow's milk
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cow's milk” in English

cow's milkfalls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, and used as food by humans.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how cow's milk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The child is taken off the breast or bottle and fed soya milk or one of the new lactose-free cow’s milks.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cow's milk"?
"cow's milk" is spelled C-O-W-'-S- -M-I-L-K.
What does "cow's milk" mean?
As a noun, "cow's milk" means: A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of a cow, and used as food by humans.
What language does "cow's milk" come from?
"cow's milk" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list