cuplé
[kuˈple]
The verdict
“cuplé” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #98,294 among 8,288 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,294
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 8,288
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pieza musical popular, habitualmente de tono picaresco y a veces político, que se cantaba como parte de los espectáculos de varietés en la España de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX
Corpus desk
Index ES-cuple · cuplé · Spanish
cuplé · rank #98,294 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,294
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,288
- PHOTO-FINISH culpada
Nearest frequency peer: culpada (-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 “cuplé”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- cubilete
cubilete
1,711 corpus weight
- culpada
culpada
1,708 corpus weight
- cuplé
cuplé
1,707 corpus weight
- cursen
cursen
1,706 corpus weight
- cuáqueros
cuáqueros
1,705 corpus weight
- cínicas
cínicas
1,703 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “cuplé” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cuplé |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [kuˈple] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #98,294 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “cuplé” en español
Rare enough to double-check
cuplé is uncommon Spanish at frequency #98,294 among 8,288 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [kuˈple]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cuplé, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct Spanish form is cuplé, spelled C-U-P-L-É.
Definition
- 1Pieza musical popular, habitualmente de tono picaresco y a veces político, que se cantaba como parte de los espectáculos de varietés en la España de fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX
- 2Pieza musical, del mismo tenor que el antiguo cuplé₁, que forma parte del repertorio de las agrupaciones musicales propias del carnaval de múltiples lugares de España.
Synonyms
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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