copacetic
/ˌkoʊ.pəˈsɛt.ɪk/adjective
copacetic is spelled C-O-P-A-C-E-T-I-C. The wrong spelling people search most is copesettic: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 53 of all searches for the word. Copacetic is an adjective meaning “Fine, excellent, OK, in excellent order”.
How do you spell copacetic?
Copacetic is spelled C-O-P-A-C-E-T-I-C. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 53 of the searches for copacetic in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
What does copacetic mean?
adjective
- 1
USslangFine, excellent, OK, in excellent order.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce copacetic?
- UK /kəʊ.pəˈsɛt.ɪk/
- US /ˌkoʊ.pəˈsɛt.ɪk/
Copacetic has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-copacetic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of copacetic
- more copacetic comparative
- most copacetic superlative
- copasetic
- kopacetic
- kopasetic
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is copacetic?
Copacetic appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 130,282nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate copacetic?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of copacetic: copa.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Copacetic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense fine, excellent, going just right, swell:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | super, extra, génial |
| German | super, genial, OK |
| Portuguese | supimpa |
| Spanish | requetebueno, estupendo, genial, impeque, copasético |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does copacetic come from?
Stephen Goranson says "there is good reason to think that Irving Bacheller invented the word [with the spelling copasetic] for a fictional character with a private vocabulary in his best-selling and later-serialized 1919 book about Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, A Man for the Ages", and its currency increased by use in the 1920 song "At the New Jump Steady Ball" (see quotation below).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).