poo poo
/puːpu/
"poo-poo" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“poo poo” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - (A piece of) excrement.
Corpus desk
Index EN-poo-poo · poo poo · English
poo poo · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | poo poo |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /puːpu/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “poo poo” in English
Rare enough to double-check
poo poo is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /puːpu/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for poo poo in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is poo poo, spelled P-O-O- -P-O-O.
Definition
- 1(A piece of) excrement.
- 2Defecation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how poo poo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Daddy, I need to take a poo poo.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.