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ops

noun, verb

ops is spelled O-P-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ops means “operations” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ops?

Letters3: O-P-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th 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 ops?

Ops appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 ops?

  • US

Ops 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-ops.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with ops?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pos, sop.

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 ops mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informaloperations

    They work in spec ops

  2. 2

    operator status

    Why don't I have ops in this channel any more?

  3. 3

    plural of op (a form of op)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of op (a form of op)

noun

as OPS
  1. 1

    Initialism of on-base plus slugging.

  2. 2

    Initialism of other professional studies.

noun

as OPs
  1. 1

    plural of OP (a form of OP)

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

Where does ops come from?

Based on OPS.

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

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