loup
/luːp/
"loup" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“loup” is uncommon English (frequency #54,913 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,913
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the trip hammer or rolls.
Corpus desk
Index EN-loup · loup · English
loup · rank #54,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,913
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH Luci
Nearest frequency peer: Luci (+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 “loup”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Llanelli
Llanelli
45,092 corpus weight
- loup
loup
45,088 corpus weight
- Luci
Luci
45,087 corpus weight
- ludicrously
ludicrously
45,086 corpus weight
- Lupo
Lupo
45,085 corpus weight
- madrigal
madrigal
45,083 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “loup” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | loup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /luːp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #54,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “loup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
loup is uncommon English at frequency #54,913 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /luːp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the trip hammer or rolls.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for loup, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”). The correct English form is loup, spelled L-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1A mass of iron in a pasty condition gathered into a ball for the trip hammer or rolls.
Etymology
Borrowed from German Luppe (“a lump of iron”).
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
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