syrup
syr·up/ˈsɪɹ.əp/noun, verb
syrup is spelled S-Y-R-U-P, 2 syllables: syr·up. The wrong spelling people search most is syrap: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 556 of all searches for the word. Syrup is a noun meaning “Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring”. The plural of syrup is syrups.
How many letters and syllables are in syrup?
| Letters | 5: S-Y-R-U-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: syr·up |
| In writing | 5.8 times per million words; the 10,196th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, syrap, about 20 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 syrup?
Syrup is spelled S-Y-R-U-P. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 554 of the searches for syrup 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 syrup?
Syrup appears 5.8 times per million words in written English, the 10,196th 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 syrup?
- UK /ˈsɪ.ɹəp/
- US /ˈsɪɹ.əp/
- US /ˈsɝ.əp/
Syrup has 2 syllables, split syr·up in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-syrup.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of syrup
- syrups plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sirop
- sirup
- syrop
- syruping participle, present
- syruped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does syrup mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any thick liquid that has a high sugar content and which is added to or poured over food as a flavoring.
maple syrup
- 2
Any viscous liquid.
cough syrup
- 3
Anything overly sweet or sentimental.
- 4
slangA wig.
verb
- 1
To convert or process into syrup.
- 2
To add syrup to.
- 3
To sabotage (a vehicle) by pouring syrup into the gas tank.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Syrup in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense thick liquid that has a high sugar content:
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 syrup come from?
From Middle English sirup, from Old French sirop, from Medieval Latin siruppus, syrupus, from Arabic شَرَاب (šarāb, “a drink, beverage, wine, coffee, syrup”), from شَرِبَ (šariba, “to drink”). Doublet of sirop. Related to sorbet, sherbet, sharbat. Compare French sirop, Italian siroppo, sciroppo, Spanish jarabe, jarope, Portuguese xarope, and Dutch siroop and stroop. The first known use of the spelling sirup was in the 14th century.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).