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peeps

/piːps/noun, verb

peeps is spelled P-E-E-P-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, peeps means “plural of peep” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in peeps?

Letters5: P-E-E-P-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.3 times per million words; the 25,367th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is peeps?

Peeps appears 1.3 times per million words in written English, the 25,367th 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 peeps?

  • /piːps/

Peeps 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: En-au-peeps.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with peeps

Also written: people.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of peeps

  • peops

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

What does peeps mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of peep (a form of peep)

  2. 2

    slangAlternative form of people; often especially (with personal pronoun) one's friends or associates.

    Not many peeps here tonight, innit?

verb

  1. 1

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

noun

as Peeps
  1. 1

    plural of Peep (a form of Peep)

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

Where does peeps come from?

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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

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