cupule
Letters
6 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
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cupule is aFrenchnoun. It means: Godet qui enveloppe la base de certains fruits comme le gland chez les chênes. Pronounced \ky.pyl\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cupule |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ky.pyl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The French entry for cupule is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ky.pyl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cupule in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 cupule, spelled C-U-P-U-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Godet qui enveloppe la base de certains fruits comme le gland chez les chênes.
- 2Sorte de petite coupe plus ou moins stipitée renfermant les organes de la reproduction chez certains lichens fruticuleux.
- 3Creux microscopique observé sur la surface de rupture d’un matériau ductile soumis à une déformation plastique, qui résulte de la croissance et de la jonction de microcavités.
- 4Creux circulaire d’origine anthropique à la surface d'une dalle ou d'un rocher.
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