photoshop
/ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/verb, noun
photoshop is spelled P-H-O-T-O-S-H-O-P: 9 letters and 3 syllables. It appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, photoshop means “To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in photoshop?
| Letters | 9: P-H-O-T-O-S-H-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.0 times per million words; the 9,878th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 photoshop?
Photoshop appears 6.0 times per million words in written English, the 9,878th 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 photoshop?
- UK /ˈfəʊ.təʊ.ʃɒp/
- US /ˈfoʊ.toʊ.ʃɑp/
Photoshop has 3 syllables (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-Photoshop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of photoshop
- photoshops present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- photoshopping participle, present
- photoshopped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does photoshop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To digitally edit or alter (a picture or photograph).
She charged that the prosecutor had photoshopped the image to incriminate her.
noun
- 1
A digitally altered image.
I reckon the image is a photoshop.
verb
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“to digitally edit or alter a picture or photograph”).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of photoshop (“a digitally altered image”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Photoshop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense to digitally edit a picture:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | photoshoper |
| German | photoshoppen |
| Portuguese | photoshopar |
| Spanish | photoshopear, fotoshopear |
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 photoshop come from?
Genericized trademark of Adobe Photoshop, a widely-used graphics editor. This may in turn have been derived from its usage to refer to the camera room in the offset lithography process, where laid up pages could be extensively retouched before being transferred to the printing plates.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).