cups
/kʌps/noun, verb
cups is spelled C-U-P-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, cups means “A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, bearing the symbol of a cup or chalice” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in cups?
| Letters | 4: C-U-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 cups?
Cups appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th 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 cups?
- /kʌps/
Cups 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-cups.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with cups?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as cups.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cusp, scup.
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 cups mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of cup
- 2
A suit of the minor arcana in tarot, bearing the symbol of a cup or chalice.
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of cup
noun
- 1
plural of Cup
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).