copse
/kɒps/
"copse" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“copse” is uncommon English (frequency #63,526 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,526
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
Corpus desk
Index EN-copse · copse · English
copse · rank #63,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,526
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH conversationa…
Nearest frequency peer: conversationalist (-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 “copse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- comeuppance
comeuppance
36,480 corpus weight
- confiding
confiding
36,478 corpus weight
- conversatio…
conversationalist
36,476 corpus weight
- copse
copse
36,475 corpus weight
- cormorant
cormorant
36,473 corpus weight
- crafter
crafter
36,469 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “copse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | copse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kɒps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #63,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “copse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
copse is uncommon English at frequency #63,526 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kɒps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
copse has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: 1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”. The correct English form is copse, spelled C-O-P-S-E.
Definition
- 1A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
- 2Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
- 3Any woodland or woodlot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how copse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.
The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Among the woods and copses lose themselves,
Etymology
1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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