coppice
/ˈkɒpɪs/
"coppice" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coppice” is uncommon English (frequency #77,554 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #77,554
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coppice · coppice · English
coppice · rank #77,554 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #77,554
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH copyist
Nearest frequency peer: copyist (+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 “coppice”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- concussive
concussive
22,451 corpus weight
- confluent
confluent
22,450 corpus weight
- Coniston
Coniston
22,449 corpus weight
- coppice
coppice
22,447 corpus weight
- copyist
copyist
22,446 corpus weight
- corpo
corpo
22,443 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coppice” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coppice |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkɒpɪs/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #77,554 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coppice” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coppice is uncommon English at frequency #77,554 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkɒpɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.".
coppice doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”),… The correct English form is coppice, spelled C-O-P-P-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coppice appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]
It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.
Etymology
From Middle English copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).
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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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