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pops

/pɑps/noun, verb

pops is spelled P-O-P-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pops means “Father, dad” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pops?

Letters4: P-O-P-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing8.7 times per million words; the 7,797th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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

How common is pops?

Pops appears 8.7 times per million words in written English, the 7,797th 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 pops?

  • US /pɑps/

Pops 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-pops.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with pops?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as pops from its last stressed vowel (/ɑps/):

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).

What does pops mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalFather, dad.

    Hey, pops, I'm home.

  2. 2

    informalA man old enough to be the speaker's father.

  3. 3

    informalplural of pop (the sound and related meanings) (a form of pop)

verb

  1. 1

    informalthird-person singular simple present indicative of pop (a form of pop)

noun

as POPS
  1. 1

    Initialism of privately owned public space.

noun

as Pops
  1. 1

    plural of Pop (a form of Pop)

noun

as POPs
  1. 1

    plural of POP (a form of POP)

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

Where does pops come from?

From pop (“dad”) + -s (hypocoristic suffix).

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

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