stup
\styp\
The verdict
“stup” is uncommon French (frequency #57,619 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,619
- frequency rank, French
- 6,032
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Stupéfiant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-stup · stup · French
stup · rank #57,619 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,619
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,032
- PHOTO-FINISH Studien
Nearest frequency peer: Studien (-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 « stup »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- sticks
sticks
42,385 corpus weight
- strand
strand
42,384 corpus weight
- Studien
Studien
42,383 corpus weight
- stup
stup
42,382 corpus weight
- subséquente
subséquente
42,381 corpus weight
- subséquentes
subséquentes
42,380 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « stup » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stup |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \styp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #57,619 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « stup » en français
Rare enough to double-check
stup is uncommon French at frequency #57,619 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \styp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stup, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is stup, spelled S-T-U-P.
Definition
- 1Stupéfiant.
- 2Officier de la brigade des stupéfiants.
- 3La brigade des stupéfiants (en 2016 : Office central de répression du trafic de stupéfiants).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stup appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La brigade des stups.
Trafic de stups : dix-sept interpellations
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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