cuisine
/kwɪˈziːn/noun
cuisine is spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-E. The wrong spelling people search most is cusine: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Cuisine is a noun meaning “A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin”. The plural of cuisine is cuisines.
How many letters and syllables are in cuisine?
| Letters | 7: C-U-I-S-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.5 times per million words; the 9,463rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, cusine, about 190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell cuisine?
Cuisine is spelled C-U-I-S-I-N-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 12 of the searches for cuisine in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is cuisine?
Cuisine appears 6.5 times per million words in written English, the 9,463rd 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 cuisine?
- /kwɪˈziːn/
- /kəˈziːn/
Cuisine has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cuisine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cuisine
- cuisines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cuisine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A characteristic manner or style of preparing food, often associated with a place of origin.
French cuisine is considered to be one of the world's most refined and elegant styles of cooking.
- 2
The food prepared using such style.
- 3
Synonym of culinary art: The art of preparing food in general.
- 4
datedA kitchen or cooking department.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cuisine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense characteristic style of preparing food:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cuisine, art culinaire |
| German | Küche, Kochkunst |
| Portuguese | cozinha, culinária |
| Spanish | gastronomía |
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 cuisine come from?
Borrowed from French cuisine (“cooking, culinary art, kitchen”), from Late Latin cocīna, from earlier coquīna (“kitchen”). Doublet of kitchen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).