cachupa
The verdict
“cachupa” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun — the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Plat traditionnel des îles du Cap-Vert, composé de maïs, de haricots blancs, rouges, de flageolets, de feuilles de choux, patate douces, d’oignons, d’ail, etc., cuits avec du poisson et/ou de la vi...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cachupa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kɐ.ʃˈu.pɐ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “cachupa” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cachupa is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kɐ.ʃˈu.pɐ\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plat traditionnel des îles du Cap-Vert, composé de maïs, de haricots blancs, rouges, de flageolets, de feuilles de choux, patate douces, d’oignons, d’ail, etc., cuits avec du poisson et/ou de la vi...".
No misspelling variants are generated for cachupa in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is cachupa, spelled C-A-C-H-U-P-A, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plat traditionnel des îles du Cap-Vert, composé de maïs, de haricots blancs, rouges, de flageolets, de feuilles de choux, patate douces, d’oignons, d’ail, etc., cuits avec du poisson et/ou de la viande.
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Using “cachupa”
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- The one correct French spelling is C-A-C-H-U-P-A — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \kɐ.ʃˈu.pɐ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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