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roundtrip

noun, verb

roundtrip is spelled R-O-U-N-D-T-R-I-P: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, roundtrip means “Alternative form of round trip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of roundtrip is roundtrips.

How many letters and syllables are in roundtrip?

Letters9: R-O-U-N-D-T-R-I-P
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 58,714th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 roundtrip?

Roundtrip appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 58,714th 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 roundtrip?

  • US

Roundtrip has 2 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-roundtrip.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with roundtrip

Also written: round-trip (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Forms of roundtrip

  • roundtrips plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • roundtripping participle, present
  • roundtripped participle, past

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

What does roundtrip mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of round trip.

verb

  1. 1

    To export (a file, data, etc.) and eventually import it again without loss of fidelity.

  2. 2

    To engage in the form of barter called a round trip.

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

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