cups
/kʌps/
"cups" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cups” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #5,952. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,952
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cup
Corpus desk
Index EN-cups · cups · English
cups · rank #5,952 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,952
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH CT
Nearest frequency peer: CT (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “cups”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- convert
convert
94,052 corpus weight
- cooked
cooked
94,051 corpus weight
- CT
CT
94,050 corpus weight
- cups
cups
94,049 corpus weight
- deciding
deciding
94,048 corpus weight
- defender
defender
94,047 corpus weight
What this shows “cups” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cups |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌps/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #5,952 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “cups”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around cups (IPA /kʌps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,952 among 5,599 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for cups, with forms such as "ccups", "cpus", and "cupps". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cut", "cuz", "CVS", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is cups, spelled C-U-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cup
- 2A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, bearing the symbol of a cup or chalice.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccups
- cpus
- cupps
- cupss
- ucps
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cups - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "cups", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).