# Rupert

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈɹupɚt/ · frequency rank #12,854

## Definitions
1. A male given name from the Germanic languages.
2. A city, the county seat of Minidoka County, Idaho.
3. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
4. A town in Vermont.
5. A town in West Virginia.

## Etymology
A German name, brought to England by Prince Rupert of the Rhine in the seventeenth century. Doublet of Robert. The geometry sense is also a reference to Prince Rupert, who posed the question of whether a cube could be passed through a hole made in another cube of the same size.

## Easily confused with
- **ruler** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ruler-vs-rupert)
- **roper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/roper-vs-rupert)
- **rupee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rupee-vs-rupert)
- **report** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/report-vs-rupert)
- **Robert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/robert-vs-rupert)
- **repeat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repeat-vs-rupert)
- **repent** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/repent-vs-rupert)
- **revert** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/revert-vs-rupert)

## Common misspellings (9)
`rpuert`, `rrupert`, `rueprt`, `ruperrt`, `rupertt`, `rupetr`, `ruppert`, `rupret`, `urpert`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rupert