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OTP

noun, adjective, phrase, prepositional phrase

OTP is spelled O-T-P: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, OTP means “Initialism of one-time pad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of OTP is OTPs.

How many letters and syllables are in OTP?

Letters3: O-T-P
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 45,363rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is OTP?

OTP appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 45,363rd 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).

Forms of OTP

  • OTPs plural

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

What does OTP mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of one-time pad.

    He received a login OTP after typing his phone number for premium subscription to a streaming service.

  2. 2

    Initialism of one-time password: a password that is valid for only one login session or transaction.

  3. 3

    slangInitialism of one true pair (or pairing): the romantic pairing preferred by an author or reader of fan fiction.

  4. 4

    Initialism of one-trick pony.

  5. 5

    Initialism of offer to purchase.

adjective

  1. 1

    Initialism of one-time programmable.

phrase

  1. 1

    Initialism of on the phone.

prepositional phrase

  1. 1

    Initialism of outside the perimeter.

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

OTP in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one-time password:

LanguageWords
Spanishcontraseña de un solo uso, clave de solamente un uso

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.

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