troop
/tɹup/noun, verb
troop is spelled T-R-O-O-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “troop vs troupe” about 260 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, troop means “A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of troop is troops.
How many letters and syllables are in troop?
| Letters | 5: T-R-O-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.9 times per million words; the 11,373rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 common is troop?
Troop appears 4.9 times per million words in written English, the 11,373rd 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 troop?
- UK /tɹuːp/
- British /tɹʉwp/
- US /tɹup/
Troop 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-troop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with troop
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: troupe (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with troop?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as troop from its last stressed vowel (/up/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: porto, proto, poort, tropo.
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 troop
- troops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- trooping participle, present
- trooped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does troop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A collection of people; a number; a multitude (in general).
- 2
A small unit of cavalry or armour commanded by a captain, corresponding to a platoon or company of infantry.
- 3
A detachment of soldiers or police, especially horse artillery, armour, or state troopers.
- 4
A group of soldiers; military forces.
- 5
nonstandardA company of actors; a troupe.
- 6
A chapter of a national girl or boy scouts organization, consisting of one or more patrols of 6 to 8 youngsters each.
Lord Baden-Powell of Gilwell (1920), Aids To Scoutmastership, page 6: “It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative effort.”
- 7
nonstandardAn individual soldier or member of a military force; a trooper.
- 8
A group of primates (lemurs, monkeys and apes).
verb
- 1
To move in numbers; to come or gather in crowds or troops.
- 2
To march on; to go forward in haste.
- 3
To move or march as if in a crowd.
The children trooped into the room.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Troop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 troop come from?
Attested in English since 1545, from French troupe, from Back-formation from troupeau, from Middle French trope, troupe, from Old French trope, trupe, of unknown origin. Compare Early Medieval Latin troppus. Doublet of troupe, and possibly also of thorp, dorp, and trip. Cognate with German Dorf (“village”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).