cooped

/kuːpt/

//kuːpt// verb

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

The verdict

“cooped” is uncommon English (frequency #54,707 among 43,570 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,707
frequency rank, English
43,570
“C” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of coop

Key facts for cooped
PropertyValue
Headwordcooped
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
IPA/kuːpt/
Letters6
Frequency rank#54,707
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “cooped” sits in English frequency

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

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

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

cooped is uncommon English at frequency #54,707 among 43,570 “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

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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Using “cooped”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is C-O-O-P-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as /kuːpt/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words

Other uncommon English words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list