lupine
/ˈluː.paɪn/
"lupine" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lupine” is uncommon English (frequency #75,168 among 2,297 “L” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,168
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wolfish (all senses); wolflike.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lupine · lupine · English
lupine · rank #75,168 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,168
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH LRB
Nearest frequency peer: LRB (-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 “lupine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Loewe
Loewe
24,837 corpus weight
- loggia
loggia
24,836 corpus weight
- Loughton
Loughton
24,835 corpus weight
- LRB
LRB
24,834 corpus weight
- lupine
lupine
24,833 corpus weight
- Luria
Luria
24,832 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “lupine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lupine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈluː.paɪn/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,168 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “lupine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
lupine is uncommon English at frequency #75,168 among 2,297 “L” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈluː.paɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for lupine in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin lupīnus, from lupus (“wolf”) + -īnus (“pertaining to”). Doublet of lupin and piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en. The correct English form is lupine, spelled L-U-P-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Wolfish (all senses); wolflike.
- 2Ravenous.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lupīnus, from lupus (“wolf”) + -īnus (“pertaining to”). Doublet of lupin and piecewise doublet of wolven, Latin lupus being a cognate of wolf and -ine being a doublet of -en.
This word in other languages
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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