meep
/miːp/
"meep" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meep” is uncommon English (frequency #70,891 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,891
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - imitating a small animal's cry, particularly a kitten or small bird
Corpus desk
Index EN-meep · meep · English
meep · rank #70,891 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,891
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH Melanesian
Nearest frequency peer: Melanesian (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “meep”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- McLemore
McLemore
29,115 corpus weight
- McNeal
McNeal
29,114 corpus weight
- meep
meep
29,110 corpus weight
- Melanesian
Melanesian
29,107 corpus weight
- membered
membered
29,106 corpus weight
- Mesmer
Mesmer
29,105 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “meep” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | meep |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /miːp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,891 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meep” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meep is uncommon English at frequency #70,891 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /miːp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for meep in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Imitative The correct English form is meep, spelled M-E-E-P.
Definition
- 1imitating a small animal's cry, particularly a kitten or small bird
- 2imitating a small vehicle's high pitched horn
- 3expressing surprise, dismay, fear, or concern
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meep appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Meep, meep, meep!" echoed his brothers and sisters. They all felt pleased with themselves for having learnt to call their mother …
"We gave him three nervous breakdowns, you know," he says, waving his fingers in the rear view. "Listen, I..." "I've heard this kind of thing before. The English think the French are little blind dogs. Meep meep meep meep meep," he says, performing a talking pantomime with his hand.
Etymology
Imitative
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).