hippie
/ˈhɪpi/noun, adjective
hippie is spelled H-I-P-P-I-E: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “hippie vs hippy” about 70 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, hippie means “A teenager who imitated the beatniks” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hippie is hippies.
How many letters and syllables are in hippie?
| Letters | 6: H-I-P-P-I-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.3 times per million words; the 18,064th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How common is hippie?
Hippie appears 2.3 times per million words in written English, the 18,064th 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 hippie?
- /ˈhɪpi/
Hippie 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-hippie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with hippie
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: hippy.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of hippie
- hippies plural
- hippy
- hippier comparative
- hippiest superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hippie mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A teenager who imitated the beatniks.
- 2
derogatoryOne who chooses not to conform to prevailing social norms: especially one who subscribes to values or actions such as acceptance or self-practice of recreational drug use, liberal or radical sexual mores, advocacy of communal living, strong pacifism or anti-war sentiment, etc.
- 3
derogatoryslangA person who keeps an unkempt or sloppy appearance and has unusually long hair (for males), and is thus often stereotyped as a deadbeat.
- 4
Someone who dresses in a hippie style.
- 5
archaicdatedSomeone who is or tries to be hip.
Near-synonyms: hipster, hepster, trendite; see also Thesaurus:fashionable person
adjective
- 1
Of or pertaining to hippies.
That dress looks very hippie.
- 2
colloquialNot conforming to generally accepted standards.
They used a bunch of hippie compression formats instead of the usual RAR and ZIP.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hippie in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense 1960s nonconformist:
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.
Where does hippie come from?
From 1953, a usually disparaging variant of hipster. See also etymology of hippie.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).