Definitions for cockerel

cockerel cock·er·el

Spelling: [kok-er-uh l, kok-ruh l]
IPA: /ˈkɒk ər əl, ˈkɒk rəl/

Cockerel is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 132 anagrams from letters in cockerel (cceeklor).

Definitions for cockerel

noun

  1. a young domestic cock.

Origin of cockerel

First recorded in 1400-50, cockerel is from the late Middle English word cokerelle. See cock1, -rel

Examples for cockerel

Thought some o' takin' out a policy o' insurance on my cockerel.

Then he said: 'Poultry, cockerel, now I will do the like by thee.'

A single sound, like the scream of a cockerel, escaped from Hedvig.

And for you, my half-bred Spanish cockerel, know once and for all that this maid is for your betters.

Henrietta Hen said that she hadn't noticed which cockerel it was.

This was his first sight of pirates, and he was as full of fight as a cockerel.

Little you know, my cockerel, how facile a brain your 'bus so lightly bears.

The word "cockerel," as is seen at a glance, is the diminutive of "cock."

Still, Master Paul, thine uncle was not so young as thou, my cockerel.

He will find me too hot a cockerel, as he calls me, to venture upon our colors again.

Word Value for cockerel
Scrable

16

Words with friends

19

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