pressure cooker
"pressure-cooker" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pressure cooker” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
Corpus desk
Index EN-pressure-cooker · pressure cooker · English
pressure cooker · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | pressure cooker |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “pressure cooker” in English
Rare enough to double-check
pressure cooker is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
pressure cooker doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pressure cooker, spelled P-R-E-S-S-U-R-E- -C-O-O-K-E-R.
Definition
- 1A sealed cooking vessel that allows cooking in greater than atmospheric pressure and at a temperature above the boiling point of water.
- 2A stressful situation that is liable to erupt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how pressure cooker appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Look, I had a pressure cooker of a job along with more responsibility that any one person should have. I had an office of twenty-five people under me all needing help like little birds in a nest.
Wall Street hopes that economic deprivation will turn up the pressure cooker on internal relations.
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.