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GAAP

/ɡæp/noun

GAAP is a noun meaning “Acronym of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled G-A-A-P, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does GAAP mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce GAAP?

  • US /ɡæp/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is GAAP?

GAAP appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,150th 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).

GAAP in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense GAAP:

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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.