cupid
\ˈkju.pɪd\
The verdict
“cupid” is uncommon French (frequency #92,602 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,602
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enfant représentant Cupidon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cupid · cupid · French
cupid · rank #92,602 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,602
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cumulable
Nearest frequency peer: cumulable (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « cupid »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- culminants
culminants
7,402 corpus weight
- cumbia
cumbia
7,401 corpus weight
- cumulable
cumulable
7,400 corpus weight
- cupid
cupid
7,399 corpus weight
- curetage
curetage
7,398 corpus weight
- curia
curia
7,397 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « cupid » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cupid |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈkju.pɪd\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,602 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « cupid » en français
Rare enough to double-check
cupid is uncommon French at frequency #92,602 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈkju.pɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Enfant représentant Cupidon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for cupid, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is cupid, spelled C-U-P-I-D.
Definition
- 1Enfant représentant Cupidon.
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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