lips
/lɪps/verb, noun
lips is spelled L-I-P-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, lips means “To kiss (passionately), to smooch” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in lips?
| Letters | 4: L-I-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 22 times per million words; the 3,939th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lips?
Lips appears 22 times per million words in written English, the 3,939th 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 lips?
- /lɪps/
Lips has one syllable (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-us-lips.ogg, En-uk-lips.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lips?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as lips.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: slip, lisp.
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 lips
- lipses present, singular, he/she/it
- lipsing participle, present
- lipsed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lips mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To kiss (passionately), to smooch.
- 2
third-person singular simple present indicative of lip
noun
- 1
plural of lip
noun
- 1
plural of LIP
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).