cops
/kɑps/noun, verb
cops is spelled C-O-P-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cops means “The police, considered as a group entity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cops?
| Letters | 4: C-O-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is cops?
Cops appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce cops?
- UK /kɒps/
- US /kɑps/
- Australia /kɔps/
Cops has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-cops.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with cops
Sounds like: copse (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with cops?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as cops from its last stressed vowel (/ɑps/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: scop.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does cops mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of cop
- 2
slangThe police, considered as a group entity.
- 3
UKThe connecting crook of a harrow.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of cop
noun
- 1
plural of COP
noun
- 1
plural of Cop
noun
- 1
plural of CoP
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Cops in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense law enforcement:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.