cook: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 10 letter points · starts with C · ends with K
Meaning of cook
noun
A person who prepares food.
Example: I'm a terrible cook, so I eat a lot of frozen dinners.
The head cook of a manor house.
The degree or quality of cookedness of food.
The member of a hot-rivetting team who heats the rivets in a brazier, see rivet.
Listed forms: cooks.
Source: Wiktionary — cook.
verb
- ambitransitive
To prepare food for eating, typically by heating it, combining it with other ingredients, seasoning it, preparing it for serving, etc.
Example: I'm cooking bangers and mash.
- specifically, transitive
To apply heat to food in the course of preparing it, particularly in a way that transforms it rather than simply making it warmer.
- intransitive
To undergo cooking.
Example: The dinner is cooking on the stove.
- transitive
To smelt.
Listed forms: cooks, cooking, cooked, cooken, glossary, cookest.
Source: Wiktionary — cook.
verb
- intransitive, obsolete, rare
To make the noise of the cuckoo.
Listed forms: cooks, cooking, cooked.
Source: Wiktionary — cook.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for cook.
verb
prepare for eating by applying heat
verb
tamper, with the purpose of deception
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is cook in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of cook
C(3) + O(1) + O(1) + K(5) = 10 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of cook
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from cook
4 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in cook. Showing up to 24, longest first.