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lippy

lip·py/ˈlɪpi/adjective, noun

lippy is spelled L-I-P-P-Y: 5 letters and 2 syllables (lip·py). It appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, lippy means “Having prominent lips” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in lippy?

Letters5: L-I-P-P-Y
Syllables2: lip·py
In writingabout once in every 6 million words; the 74,980th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is lippy?

Lippy appears about once in every 6 million words in written English, the 74,980th 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 lippy?

  • US /ˈlɪpi/
  • /ˈlɪpɪ/

Lippy has 2 syllables, split lip·py in writing.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-uk-lippy.oga, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with lippy?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as lippy from its last stressed vowel (/ɪpi/):

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 lippy

  • lippier comparative
  • lippiest superlative
  • lippies plural
  • lippie

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

What does lippy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    informalHaving prominent lips.

  2. 2

    informalHaving a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or impertinent manner.

    Don't give me any lip! I don't like how lippy you've been acting lately! Clean your room.

noun

  1. 1

    UKcolloquialLip gloss or lipstick; (countable) a stick of this product.

  2. 2

    ScotlandUKcolloquialAn old dry measure amounting to one quarter of a peck (for goods sold by weight, 1¾ pounds or about four-fifths of a kilogram); also, a container of that capacity.

  3. 3

    UKcolloquialDiminutive of lip. (a form of lip)

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

Lippy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlippu (having prominent lips), répondeur (having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or…)
Portuguesebeiçudo (having prominent lips)
Spanishbefo, bembudo, bezudo, morrudo, trompudo (having prominent lips), hocicón (having a tendency to talk back in a cheeky or…)

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 lippy come from?

From lip (“fleshy protrusion around the opening of the mouth; (slang) verbal impertinence, backtalk”) + -y (suffix forming adjectives with the sense of ‘having the quality of’).

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

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