toupee
\tuːˈpeɪ\
The verdict
“toupee” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toupet, postiche de cheveux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-toupee · toupee · French
toupee · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | toupee |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tuːˈpeɪ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « toupee » en français
Rare enough to double-check
toupee is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \tuːˈpeɪ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Toupet, postiche de cheveux.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for toupee, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is toupee, spelled T-O-U-P-E-E.
Definition
- 1Toupet, postiche de cheveux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how toupee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Her powdered hair is turned backward over a toupee.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.