popsicle
pop·si·cle/ˈpɑp.sɪ.kəl/noun
popsicle is spelled P-O-P-S-I-C-L-E, 3 syllables: pop·si·cle. The wrong spelling people search most is popcycle: about 190 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 36 of all searches for the word. Popsicle is a noun meaning “Frozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like on a stick”. The plural of popsicle is popsicles.
How many letters and syllables are in popsicle?
| Letters | 8: P-O-P-S-I-C-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: pop·si·cle |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,176th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, popcycle, about 190 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell popsicle?
Popsicle is spelled P-O-P-S-I-C-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 36 of the searches for popsicle in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is popsicle?
Popsicle appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,176th 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 popsicle?
- UK /ˈpɒp.sɪ.kəl/
- UK [ˈpɒp.sɪ.kl̩]
- US /ˈpɑp.sɪ.kəl/
Popsicle has 3 syllables, split pop·si·cle in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-popsicle.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of popsicle
- popsicles plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does popsicle mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CanadaUSFrozen fruit juice, flavored sugar water, or the like on a stick.
- 2
Something cold or frozen.
Turn up the thermostat! We're all turning into popsicles in here!
noun
- 1
A Popsicle brand popsicle, a type of ice lolly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Popsicle in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense frozen juice &c. on a stick:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sucette glacée |
| German | Eis am Stiel, Stieleis, Wassereis |
| Portuguese | picolé |
| Spanish | helado (de agua), paleta, polo, loli, picolé |
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 popsicle come from?
From the trade name Popsicle, a blend of pop (“father”) + Epsicle (original trade name), itself a blend of Epperson (surname of the inventor) + icicle.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).