toupie

/\tu.pi\/ noun

Letters

6 characters

Frequency Rank

#38,575

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

14

similar word pairs

toupie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Jouet qu’on fait tourner sur la pointe en lui imprimant un mouvement de rotation au moyen d’une ficelle déroulée vivement ou d’un ressort. Pronounced \tu.pi\. Often confused with toute and touré.

Key facts for toupie
PropertyValue
Headwordtoupie
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tu.pi\
Letters6
Frequency rank#38,575
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of toupie in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for toupie is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \tu.pi\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,575 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for toupie, with forms such as "otupie", "topuie", and "touipe". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "toute", "touré", "truie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 toupie, spelled T-O-U-P-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Jouet qu’on fait tourner sur la pointe en lui imprimant un mouvement de rotation au moyen d’une ficelle déroulée vivement ou d’un ressort.
  2. 2
    Personne indécise et sans volonté.
  3. 3
    Femme désagréable.
  4. 4
    Machine-outil qui sert à faire des moulures.
  5. 5
    Pièce de buis en forme de toupie (1) allongée et utilisée pour évaser l’extrémité des tuyaux en plomb. ^([1])
  6. 6
    Cuve rotative d’un camion malaxeur.
  7. 7
    Contrôle de formulaire constitué de deux flèches de sens inverse.
  8. 8
    Nom vernaculaire donné par analogie de forme à la troque.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: otupie,topuie,touipe,toupei,touppie,ttoupie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for toupie

Misspelling Variants of "toupie"

otupie6topuie6touipe6toupei6touppie7ttoupie7
Misspelling Variants of "toupie"

Frequency rank: #38,575 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "toupie"?
"toupie" is spelled T-O-U-P-I-E. The IPA pronunciation is \tu.pi\.
What does "toupie" mean?
As a noun, "toupie" means: Jouet qu’on fait tourner sur la pointe en lui imprimant un mouvement de rotation au moyen d’une ficelle déroulée vivement ou d’un ressort.
What words are commonly confused with "toupie"?
"toupie" is commonly confused with "toute", "touré", "truie". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "toupie"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "toupie" is \tu.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "toupie" come from?
"toupie" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.