cowberry
/ˈkaubəɹɪ/
"cowberry" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cowberry” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
Corpus desk
Index EN-cowberry · cowberry · English
cowberry · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | cowberry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkaubəɹɪ/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cowberry” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cowberry is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkaubəɹɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cowberry, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From cow + berry. Compare bilberry. The correct English form is cowberry, spelled C-O-W-B-E-R-R-Y.
Definition
- 1A shrub native to the cool temperate areas of the Northern Hemisphere (Vaccinium vitis-idaea).
- 2A berry of this shrub.
Etymology
From cow + berry. Compare bilberry.
Synonyms
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.