troops
/tɹuːps/noun, verb
troops is spelled T-R-O-O-P-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, troops means “Military personnel in uniform” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in troops?
| Letters | 6: T-R-O-O-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 44 times per million words; the 2,290th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is troops?
Troops appears 44 times per million words in written English, the 2,290th 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 troops?
- /tɹuːps/
Troops 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-us-troops.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with troops?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as troops.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sporto.
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).
What does troops mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Military personnel in uniform.
There were 10,000 troops in Iraq.
- 2
plural of troop
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of troop
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Troops in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense military personnel in uniform:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | troupes |
| German | Truppen |
| Portuguese | tropas |
| Spanish | tropas, soldados |
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.