chup
"chup" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“chup” is uncommon English (frequency #94,682 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,682
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A short, loud, and urgent sound, usually of a bird.
Corpus desk
Index EN-chup · chup · English
chup · rank #94,682 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,682
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH chunking
Nearest frequency peer: chunking (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “chup”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Chita
Chita
5,324 corpus weight
- chubs
chubs
5,321 corpus weight
- chunking
chunking
5,320 corpus weight
- chup
chup
5,319 corpus weight
- citalopram
citalopram
5,318 corpus weight
- clerestory
clerestory
5,316 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “chup” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | chup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #94,682 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “chup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
chup is uncommon English at frequency #94,682 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A short, loud, and urgent sound, usually of a bird.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for chup, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Onomatopoeic. The correct English form is chup, spelled C-H-U-P.
Definition
- 1A short, loud, and urgent sound, usually of a bird.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how chup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The blackbirds and robins and and^([sic]) tits and finches shout at each other, chups and warbles and chirrups that, loosely translated, mean “Fancy a shag?”, “Get OFF my land” or “I’ve got a great big tonker.”
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).