cupcake
\kœp.kɛk\
The verdict
“cupcake” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,822. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,822
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit gâteau américain souvent très coloré en portion individuelle, qui ressemble à un muffin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cupcake · cupcake · French
cupcake · rank #47,822 · 10 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #47,822
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH croiront
Nearest frequency peer: croiront (-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 « cupcake »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- crapules
crapules
52,182 corpus weight
- croiront
croiront
52,180 corpus weight
- cupcake
cupcake
52,179 corpus weight
- cuvées
cuvées
52,178 corpus weight
- DAF
DAF
52,177 corpus weight
- darwinisme
darwinisme
52,176 corpus weight
What this shows « cupcake » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cupcake |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kœp.kɛk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cupcake »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around cupcake (IPA \kœp.kɛk\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,822 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit gâteau américain souvent très coloré en portion individuelle, qui ressemble à un muffin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for cupcake, with forms such as "ccupcake", "cpucake", and "cucpake". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "cupcakes", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is cupcake, spelled C-U-P-C-A-K-E.
Definition
- 1Petit gâteau américain souvent très coloré en portion individuelle, qui ressemble à un muffin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cupcake appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Utiliser une cuillère pour fourrer chaque cupcake avec le caramel.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccupcake
- cpucake
- cucpake
- cupacke
- cupcaek
- cupcakke
- cupccake
- cupckae
- cuppcake
- ucpcake
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cupcake - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).