cupide
\ky.pid\
The verdict
“cupide” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,587. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,587
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui aime exagérément l'argent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-cupide · cupide · French
cupide · rank #49,587 · 8 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,587
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cruiser
Nearest frequency peer: cruiser (-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 « cupide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- craquement
craquement
50,417 corpus weight
- cruiser
cruiser
50,415 corpus weight
- cupide
cupide
50,414 corpus weight
- curage
curage
50,413 corpus weight
- cédille
cédille
50,412 corpus weight
- céphalées
céphalées
50,411 corpus weight
What this shows « cupide » 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 | cupide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ky.pid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « cupide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around cupide (IPA \ky.pid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,587 among 8,609 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for cupide, with forms such as "ccupide", "cpuide", and "cuipde". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "curie", "Cupidon", "cupidité", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is cupide, spelled C-U-P-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui aime exagérément l'argent.
- 2Glouton.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how cupide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des monologues fréquents sont ménagés pour la peinture de ce caractère: hypocrite et superstitieux tout à la fois, il fait marchandise de son ignoble métier, et se montre cupide pour son couvent tout en étant zélé pour réchauffer la dévotion publique.
Le Chartrain est cupide, apathique et salace, répliqua l’abbé Plomb ; cupide surtout, car la passion du lucre est ici, sous des dehors inertes, féroce.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ccupide
- cpuide
- cuipde
- cupdie
- cupidde
- cupied
- cuppide
- ucpide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of cupide - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).