coverup
noun
coverup is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of cover-up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled C-O-V-E-R-U-P and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of coverup is coverups.
What does coverup mean?
noun
- 1
Alternative spelling of cover-up.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce coverup?
Coverup has 3 syllables (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).
Forms of coverup
- coverups plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is coverup?
Coverup appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th 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).
Words people confuse with coverup
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: cover-up (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).