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peep

/pip/noun, verb

peep is spelled P-E-E-P: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, peep means “A feeble utterance or complaint” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of peep is peeps.

How many letters and syllables are in peep?

Letters4: P-E-E-P
Syllables1
In writing2.5 times per million words; the 17,342nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is peep?

Peep appears 2.5 times per million words in written English, the 17,342nd 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 peep?

  • UK /piːp/
  • US /pip/

Peep has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-peep.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with peep?

3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as peep from its last stressed vowel (/ip/):

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).

Forms of peep

  • peeps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • peeping participle, present
  • peeped participle, past

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

What does peep mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A feeble utterance or complaint.

    I don't want to hear a peep out of you!

  2. 2

    A brood of chicks (young chickens).

  3. 3

    The sound of a steam engine's whistle; typically shrill.

  4. 4

    colloquialA sandpiper or other small wader.

  5. 5

    A quick look or glimpse, especially a furtive one.

  6. 6

    The first partial appearance of something; a beginning to appear.

    the peep of day

  7. 7

    A peepshow.

  8. 8

    UKslangA person.

  9. 9

    obsoleteA spot on a die or domino.

  10. 10

    Alternative letter-case form of Peep

verb

  1. 1

    To make a soft, shrill noise like a baby bird.

  2. 2

    To speak briefly with a quiet voice.

  3. 3

    To look forth from concealment, especially through a narrow opening, or while trying not to be seen or noticed.

    The man peeped through the small hole.

  4. 4

    datedTo begin to appear; to make the first appearance.

  5. 5

    slangTo take a look at; check out.

    Did you peep that video I sent you?

  6. 6

    slangTo see, uncover.

noun

as Peep
  1. 1

    USA soft marshmallow confection, shaped into a baby animal for Easter celebration.

noun

as PEEP
  1. 1

    slangA World War II jeep attached to an armored regiment.

  2. 2

    Acronym of positive end-expiratory pressure.

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

Peep in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpépiement (quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird), épier, regarder furtivement (to look)
GermanPieps (quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird), lugen, linsen, illern (to look), piepen (make a noise like a baby bird), piepsen (speak briefly with a quiet voice)
Spanishpío (quiet sound, particularly one from a baby bird), piar (make a noise like a baby bird)
Portugueseespreitar, espiar (to look)

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 peep come from?

From Middle English pepen. Compare Dutch piepen (“peep”), German Low German piepen (“to peep”), German piepen and pfeifen, all probably onomatopoeic.

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

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