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hairspray

noun, verb

hairspray is spelled H-A-I-R-S-P-R-A-Y: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, hairspray means “Alternative form of hair spray” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hairspray is hairsprays.

How many letters and syllables are in hairspray?

Letters9: H-A-I-R-S-P-R-A-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is hairspray?

Hairspray appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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 hairspray?

    Hairspray has 2 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).

    Words people confuse with hairspray

    Also written: hair spray (one word or two).

    Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

    Forms of hairspray

    • hairsprays plural, present, singular, he/she/it
    • hairspraying participle, present
    • hairsprayed participle, past

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

    What does hairspray mean?

    The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

    noun

    1. 1

      Alternative form of hair spray.

    verb

    1. 1

      Alternative form of hair spray.

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

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