toupie

\tu.pi\

/\tu.pi\/ noun

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The verdict

“toupie” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,575. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,575
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - 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.

Corpus desk

Index FR-toupie · toupie · French

toupie · rank #38,575 · 6 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,575
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH topographiques

Nearest frequency peer: topographiques (-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 « toupie »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « toupie » 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).

toupie vs toute
67% similar
toupie vs touré
50% similar
toupie vs truie
67% similar

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

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « toupie »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).toupiese 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 « topographiques » (#38,574), « Tournon » (#38,576), « tonte » (#38,573). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « toupie » est au #38,575. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around toupie (IPA \tu.pi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,575 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for toupie, with forms such as "otupie", "topuie", and "touipe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "toute", "touré", "truie", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is toupie, spelled T-O-U-P-I-E.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Des enfants qui jouent à la toupie.
  2. On dit que la toupie dort quand elle tourne sans changer de place.

Synonyms

fiardetotongirouette

This word in other languages

top(English)trompo(Español)Kreisel(Deutsch)pião(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • otupie
  • topuie
  • touipe
  • toupei
  • touppie
  • ttoupie

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of toupie - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

otupie2topuie2touipe2toupei2touppie1ttoupie1
Edit distance from "toupie"

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 "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's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

treuil#38,584usuels#38,590shogun#38,536shelly#38,535

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

rays6 variantsrally6 variantsauray6 variantsaxés6 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list