soup
/sup/noun, verb
soup is spelled S-O-U-P. The wrong spelling people search most is suop: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 357 of all searches for the word. Soup is a noun meaning “Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients…”. The plural of soup is soups.
How many letters and syllables are in soup?
| Letters | 4: S-O-U-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, suop, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell soup?
Soup is spelled S-O-U-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 360 of the searches for soup 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 soup?
Soup appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 soup?
- UK /suːp/
- US /sup/
Soup 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: En-uk-soup.ogg, En-us-soup.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with soup?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as soup from its last stressed vowel (/up/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: opus, puso, pous.
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).
Forms of soup
- soups plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- souping participle, present
- souped participle, past
- soop
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does soup mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock, with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute the food value, flavor, and texture.
Pho is a traditional Vietnamese soup.
- 2
A serving of such a dish, typically in a bowl.
- 3
The liquid part of such a dish; the broth.
- 4
Any mixture or substance suggestive of soup consistency.
- 5
slangThick fog or cloud (also pea soup).
- 6
USslangNitroglycerine or gelignite, especially when used for safe-cracking.
- 7
Dope or cocaine.
- 8
Processing chemicals into which film is dipped, such as developer.
- 9
Alternative form of sup (“a sip; a small amount of food or drink”).
verb
- 1
To feed: to provide with soup or a meal.
- 2
To develop (film) in a (chemical) developing solution.
- 3
obsoleteTo proselytize by feeding the impoverished as long as they listen to one's preaching.
- 4
Alternative form of sup (“to sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon”).
- 5
obsoleteTo sweep.
- 6
rareRare form of sup (“to take supper”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Soup in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | potage, soupe, velouté , pétrin, panade |
| German | Suppe |
| Portuguese | sopa |
| Spanish | sopa, caldo |
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 soup come from?
The noun is from Middle English soupe, sowpe, from Old French soupe, souppe, sope, from Late Latin suppa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Middle Dutch sope (“broth”)). Doublet of sop and zuppa. See also sup and supper. The verb is from the noun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).