Cupids
/ˈkjuː.pɪdz/
"cupids" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Cupids” is uncommon English (frequency #88,245 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,245
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cupids · Cupids · English
Cupids · rank #88,245 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,245
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH cumshots
Nearest frequency peer: cumshots (-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 “Cupids”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- crematory
crematory
11,763 corpus weight
- Croesus
Croesus
11,761 corpus weight
- crowdsource
crowdsource
11,759 corpus weight
- cumshots
cumshots
11,757 corpus weight
- Cupids
Cupids
11,756 corpus weight
- daringly
daringly
11,754 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Cupids” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Cupids |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˈkjuː.pɪdz/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,245 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Cupids” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Cupids is uncommon English at frequency #88,245 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˈkjuː.pɪdz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Cupids in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Derived from a corruption of the surname Cooper. The correct English form is Cupids, spelled C-U-P-I-D-S.
Definition
- 1A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Etymology
Derived from a corruption of the surname Cooper.
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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