IP
adjective, noun, phrase
IP is spelled I-P: 2 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, IP means “Initialism of intraperitoneal” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in IP?
| Letters | 2: I-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,674th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 IP?
IP appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th 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 IP?
- Australia
IP 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: En-au-IP.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of IP
- IPs plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does IP mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Initialism of intraperitoneal.
noun
- 1
Initialism of intellectual property.
In the past year, Disney has announced 4 sequels and one reboot, but not a single new IP
- 2
Initialism of Indigenous peoples.
- 3
Initialism of interpositive.
- 4
Initialism of innings pitched (“the statistic reporting the number of innings pitched by a pitcher”).
- 5
Initialism of immunoprecipitation.
- 6
Initialism of insertion point (where text, etc. will be added in a document).
- 7
Initialism of instruction pointer (CPU register).
- 8
Initialism of inflectional phrase.
phrase
- 1
Initialism of in possession.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does IP come from?
Initialisms (see definitions).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).