cupula
noun
cupula is spelled C-U-P-U-L-A: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cupula means “A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of cupula is cupulas or cupulae.
How many letters and syllables are in cupula?
| Letters | 6: C-U-P-U-L-A |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is cupula?
Cupula appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 pronounce cupula?
- General-American
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-cupula.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of cupula
- cupulas plural
- cupulae plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does cupula mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cup-shaped or dome-shaped object.
- 2
A moveable object in the ampullae of the ear's semicircular canals that is involved in sensing head rotation
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does cupula come from?
Borrowed from Latin cūpula, from cūpa + -ula. Doublet of cupola. False cognate of English cupule in which English cup is descendant of Old English copp of Germanic origin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).