suction cup
/ˈsʌkʃən kʌp/
"suction-cup" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“suction cup” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A cup made of flexible material, such as rubber, that uses suction as an adhesive.
Corpus desk
Index EN-suction-cup · suction cup · English
suction cup · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | suction cup |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌkʃən kʌp/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “suction cup” in English
Rare enough to double-check
suction cup is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌkʃən kʌp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A cup made of flexible material, such as rubber, that uses suction as an adhesive.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for suction cup, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is suction cup, spelled S-U-C-T-I-O-N- -C-U-P.
Definition
- 1A cup made of flexible material, such as rubber, that uses suction as an adhesive.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.