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cowry

noun

cowry is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of cowrie” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-W-R-Y, and it appears about once in every 36 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of cowry is cowries.

What does cowry mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of cowrie.

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

How do you pronounce cowry?

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cowry.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of cowry

  • cowries plural

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

How common is cowry?

Cowry appears about once in every 36 million words in written English, the 184,844th 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).