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oop

/ʊp/interjection, adverb

oop is spelled O-O-P: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, oop means “Used to acknowledge a small mistake or accident” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in oop?

Letters3: O-O-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 oop?

Oop appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 oop?

  • /ʊp/
  • [ɤp]

Oop 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).

What rhymes with oop?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as oop.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: poo.

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).

What does oop mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    informalUsed to acknowledge a small mistake or accident.

  2. 2

    informalUsed to indicate mild surprise or shock.

noun

as OOP
  1. 1

    Initialism of object-oriented programming.

  2. 2

    Initialism of order of play (“the schedule of contests in a tennis event”).

  3. 3

    Initialism of original original poster (“the creator of quoted material”).

    Everyone here is mocking OOP, but I think he has a point.

adjective

as OOP
  1. 1

    Initialism of out of print.

  2. 2

    Initialism of out of position.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of out of pocket.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of out of process.

verb

as OOP
  1. 1

    informalTo use object-oriented programming for a task.

adverb

  1. 1

    Pronunciation spelling of up.

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

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