cooped
/kuːpt/
"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
- conscript
conscript
45,297 corpus weight
- convolution
convolution
45,295 corpus weight
- cooped
cooped
45,294 corpus weight
- Coote
Coote
45,293 corpus weight
- copilot
copilot
45,292 corpus weight
- cornflakes
cornflakes
45,291 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cooped” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cooped |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /kuːpt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,707 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cooped” in English
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
- 1simple past and past participle of coop
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cooped appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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