lollipop
/ˈlɑlipɑp/noun, verb
lollipop is spelled L-O-L-L-I-P-O-P. The wrong spelling people search most is lolipop: about 1,610 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 3 in 10 of all searches for the word. Lollipop is a noun meaning “An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick”. The plural of lollipop is lollipops.
How many letters and syllables are in lollipop?
| Letters | 8: L-O-L-L-I-P-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.4 times per million words; the 23,835th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, lolipop, about 1,610 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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 do you spell lollipop?
Lollipop is spelled L-O-L-L-I-P-O-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 3 in 10 of the searches for lollipop in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is lollipop?
Lollipop appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 23,835th 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 lollipop?
- UK /ˈlɒlipɒp/
- British /ˈlɔlɪjpɔp/
- US /ˈlɑlipɑp/
Lollipop has 3 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-us-lollipop.ogg, En-au-lollipop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with lollipop
Also written: lolly pop.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of lollipop
- lollipops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- lolli-pop
- lollypop
- lolly pop
- lolly-pop
- lollipopping participle, present
- lollipopped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lollipop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An item of confectionery consisting of a piece of candy or sweet attached to a stick.
- 2
Something having the shape of a lollipop: a linear stem connected to a round body.
- 3
A sign on a stick held in front of the vehicle during a pit stop.
verb
- 1
To prune the lower branches of a tree or other plant so that new growth appears only at the top, where more light is received.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lollipop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense confectionery on a stick:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sucette, suçon |
| German | Dauerlutscher, Lolli, Lollipop, Lutscher |
| Portuguese | sambapito, pirulito, chupa-chupa |
| Spanish | piruleta, chupachús, chupeta, chupete, chupetín, colombina |
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 lollipop come from?
By surface analysis, loll (“laze, hang loose”) + y + pop (“shot, try, burst, enter”); likely through lolly (“head, tongue”). Attested from 1784. Compare lollygag and lollypoop. An unlikely derivation is from Romani loli (“red”) + phabaj (“apple”); candy apples are often red and placed on a stick to keep the person's hands dry, similar to lollipops. However candy apples were not well-known until a century after the first known use of the word lollipop, and the original lollipop was likely a small item like modern penny candy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).