lineup
/ˈlaɪn.ʌp/noun
lineup is spelled L-I-N-E-U-P: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,674th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “line-up vs lineup” about 90 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, lineup means “A physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of lineup is lineups.
How many letters and syllables are in lineup?
| Letters | 6: L-I-N-E-U-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 |
| Pairs people 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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lineup?
Lineup 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 lineup?
- US /ˈlaɪn.ʌp/
Lineup 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-ca-lineup.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with lineup
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: line-up (one word or two).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with lineup?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lineup (/aɪnʌp/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: lupine.
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).
Forms of lineup
- lineups plural
- line-up
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lineup mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
USA physical or photographic queue of people allegedly involved in a crime, allowing a witness to identify them.
Near-synonym: rogues' gallery
- 2
A list of trains that are expected to cross over a specified section of track during a specified time period.
- 3
CanadaA line of people or vehicles, in which the individual at the front end is dealt with first, the one behind is dealt with next, and so on, and in which newcomers join at the end; a queue.
- 4
An ordered list.
- 5
Collectively, the members of a team.
The manager fielded his strongest lineup for the game against United.
- 6
The batting order.
- 7
The order in which race-cars are positioned at the start of a race, based on qualifying times.
- 8
The set of product options available from a particular manufacturer or under a particular brand name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lineup in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense sports: collectively, the members of a team:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | formation, composition |
| German | Aufstellung, Mannschaftsaufstellung |
| Portuguese | escalação |
| Spanish | alineación |
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 lineup come from?
Deverbal from line up.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).