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ps

noun

ps is spelled P-S: 2 letters. It appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ps means “plural of p” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in ps?

Letters2: P-S
In writing10 times per million words; the 6,884th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is ps?

Ps appears 10 times per million words in written English, the 6,884th 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 ps?

  • General-American

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-PS.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-PS.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What does ps mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of p (a form of p)

  2. 2

    Alternative form of PS (post scriptum).

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of power steering.

noun

as PS
  1. 1

    Initialism of postal service.

    USPS

  2. 2

    Initialism of public school.

  3. 3

    Initialism of public service(s).

  4. 4

    Initialism of PlayStation.

  5. 5

    Initialism of paddle steamer.

  6. 6

    Initialism of power supply.

  7. 7

    CommonwealthInitialism of police sergeant, a police rank used in Commonwealth countries.

  8. 8

    Abbreviation of polystyrene

  9. 9

    Short for metric horsepower.

adjective

as PS
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of packet-switched.

noun

as Ps
  1. 1

    slangAbbreviation of projects (“multi-story low-income housing development”).

    How long have you been living in the Ps?

  2. 2

    plural of P (a form of P)

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

Ps in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense addendum to a letter:

LanguageWords
GermanPS, NS
PortugueseP.S.
SpanishP. D., PD, P. S.

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.

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