cooped

/kuːpt/

//kuːpt// verb

"cooped" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“cooped” is uncommon English (frequency #54,707 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,707
frequency rank, English
5,599
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of coop

Corpus desk

Index EN-cooped · cooped · English

cooped · rank #54,707 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,707
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,599
  • PHOTO-FINISH convolution

Nearest frequency peer: convolution (-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 “cooped”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “cooped” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for cooped
PropertyValue
Headwordcooped
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/kuːpt/
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,707
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “cooped” in English

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right).coopedfalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “convolution” (#54,706), “Coote” (#54,708), “copilot” (#54,709). Among 5,599 “C” headwords, “cooped” is #54,707. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cooped is uncommon English at frequency #54,707 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /kuːpt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of coop".

cooped has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is cooped, spelled C-O-O-P-E-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of coop

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how cooped appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. If it be winter, or settled wet weather, the hen must, if possible, be kept indoors, or else be cooped under a dry shed or outhouse.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "cooped"?
"cooped" is spelled C-O-O-P-E-D. The IPA pronunciation is /kuːpt/.
What does "cooped" mean?
As a verb, "cooped" means: simple past and past participle of coop
How do you pronounce "cooped"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "cooped" is /kuːpt/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "cooped" come from?
"cooped" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cooped", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list