coupa

\ku.pa\

/\ku.pa\/ verb

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The verdict

“coupa” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,581. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,581
frequency rank, French
8,609
“C” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de couper.

Corpus desk

Index FR-coupa · coupa · French

coupa · rank #49,581 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,581
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 8,609
  • PHOTO-FINISH Cosette

Nearest frequency peer: Cosette (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « coupa »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « coupa » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

coupa vs cup
60% similar
coupa vs cpa
60% similar
coupa vs cour
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for coupa
PropertyValue
Headwordcoupa
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ku.pa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#49,581
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « coupa »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).coupase place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Cosette » (#49,580), « courais » (#49,582), « corporatisme » (#49,579). Parmi 8,609 lemmes en « C », « coupa » est au #49,581. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around coupa (IPA \ku.pa\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,581 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de couper.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for coupa, with forms such as "ccoupa", "copua", and "couap". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "cup", "cpa", "cour", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is coupa, spelled C-O-U-P-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de couper.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how coupa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il balbutia quelques mots, puis tira son couteau de sa poche, un eustache à manche de corne, coupa son pain par le milieu et en mit la moitié sur les genoux de la jeune mère, qui regarda étonnée ; mais il avait déjà tourné le coin de la rue.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ccoupa
  • copua
  • couap
  • couppa
  • cuopa
  • ocupa

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of coupa - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ccoupa1copua2couap2couppa1cuopa2ocupa2
Edit distance from "coupa"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coupa"?
"coupa" is spelled C-O-U-P-A. The IPA pronunciation is \ku.pa\.
What does "coupa" mean?
As a verb, "coupa" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de couper.
What words are commonly confused with "coupa"?
"coupa" is commonly confused with "cup", "cpa", "cour". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "coupa"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "coupa" is \ku.pa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "coupa" come from?
"coupa" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "coupa", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

conde#49,566djinn#49,600dèche#49,607edito#49,623

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

dray6 variantsbury6 variantsEnora6 variantsbeton6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list