How to pronounce Coze

Coze is most commonly pronounced "kohz" (/koʊz/). This is the widely-used reading among engineers, though edge cases exist.

Coze (Chinese 扣子, kòuzi, "button") is ByteDance's no-code AI agent and chatbot-building platform, launched in 2024 (open-source Coze Studio at github.com/coze-dev/coze-studio; coze.com). It is ONE syllable, KOHZ — identical to the rare/literary English verb "coze" ("to chat cozily"), rhyming with "doze" and "rose"; the trailing "e" is silent and there is no second vowel. Non-native devs routinely misread the -oze/-e ending as a two-syllable "CO-zee" (like "cozy"), which is wrong. It is non-obvious because the spelling looks like it should split, and the Chinese source name kòuzi actually does have two syllables. Pronunciation confirmed against Merriam-Webster (/ˈkōz/) and Dictionary.com (/koʊz/, respelling [kohz], one syllable); no official ByteDance pronunciation statement was found, hence community-consensus rather than creator-clarified.

Source: Merriam-Webster — "coze" /ˈkōz/

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