découpé

adj

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The verdict

“découpé” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,935. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,935
frequency rank, French
5,307
“D” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est coupé en plusieurs parties.

Corpus desk

Index FR-decoupe · découpé · French

découpé · rank #17,935 · 10 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,935
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 5,307
  • PHOTO-FINISH déchu

Nearest frequency peer: déchu (-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 « découpé »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « découpé » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

découpé vs déçue
43% similar
découpé vs dévoué
71% similar
découpé vs déroule
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for découpé
PropertyValue
Headworddécoupé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
Letters7
Frequency rank#17,935
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « découpé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).découpése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « déchu » (#17,934), « défectueux » (#17,936), « dégradations » (#17,937). Parmi 5,307 lemmes en « D », « découpé » est au #17,935. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around découpé, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,935 among 5,307 “D” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for découpé, with forms such as "dcéoupé", "ddécoupé", and "decoupe". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "déçue", "dévoué", "déroule", and more, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is découpé, spelled D-É-C-O-U-P-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est coupé en plusieurs parties.
  2. 2
    Dont on a doté d'une forme particulière, nette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how découpé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ces papiers découpés jonchent le sol.
  2. Le travail de finition a rendu cette sculpture sur neige bien découpée.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • dcéoupé
  • ddécoupé
  • decoupe
  • déccoupé
  • décopué
  • découppé
  • découép
  • décuopé
  • déocupé
  • édcoupé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of découpé - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

dcéoupé2ddécoupé1decoupe2déccoupé1décopué2découppé1découép2décuopé2
Edit distance from "découpé"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "découpé"?
"découpé" is spelled D-É-C-O-U-P-É.
What does "découpé" mean?
As an adjective, "découpé" means: Qui est coupé en plusieurs parties.
What words are commonly confused with "découpé"?
"découpé" is commonly confused with "déçue", "dévoué", "déroule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "découpé" come from?
"découpé" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "découpé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

doublée#17,931Dominic#17,928empires#17,946entrera#17,947

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

flingue10 variantscâlins10 variantshermès10 variantscausées10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list