cusp
Letters
4 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
cusp is aFrenchnoun. It means: Pointe aigue ; extrémité pointue ou appointée. Pronounced \kʌsp\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | cusp |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʌsp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for cusp is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \kʌsp\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for cusp 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 cusp, spelled C-U-S-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Pointe aigue ; extrémité pointue ou appointée.
- 2Tournant, au sens de moment décisif.
- 3Point de rebroussement.
- 4Sommet d'une voûte (de style gothique).
- 5Frontière entre signes du zodiaque ou maisons.
- 6Pointe d'une canine ou d'une molaire.
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