cusps
/kʌsps/
"cusps" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cusps” is uncommon English (frequency #74,869 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,869
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cusp
Corpus desk
Index EN-cusps · cusps · English
cusps · rank #74,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,869
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH culls
Nearest frequency peer: culls (-2 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 “cusps”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- cuatro
cuatro
25,136 corpus weight
- Cullman
Cullman
25,135 corpus weight
- culls
culls
25,134 corpus weight
- cusps
cusps
25,132 corpus weight
- dalles
dalles
25,128 corpus weight
- dancy
dancy
25,127 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “cusps” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cusps |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kʌsps/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #74,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cusps” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cusps is uncommon English at frequency #74,869 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kʌsps/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cusp".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cusps, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is cusps, spelled C-U-S-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of cusp
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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