coup
/ku/
The verdict
“coup” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #53,455 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,455
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Golpe.
Corpus desk
Index ES-coup · coup · Spanish
coup · rank #53,455 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,455
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH costaban
Nearest frequency peer: costaban (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “coup”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- convexo
convexo
46,550 corpus weight
- cosechan
cosechan
46,548 corpus weight
- costaban
costaban
46,547 corpus weight
- coup
coup
46,546 corpus weight
- coworking
coworking
46,545 corpus weight
- coágulo
coágulo
46,544 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “coup” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coup |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ku/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “coup” en español
Rare enough to double-check
coup is uncommon Spanish at frequency #53,455 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ku/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for coup in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular Spanish conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct Spanish form is coup, spelled C-O-U-P.
Definition
- 1Golpe.
- 2Disparo, tiro.
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 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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