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tsp

noun

tsp is spelled T-S-P: 3 letters. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tsp means “Abbreviation of teaspoon, a unit of measurement” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tsp is tsps.

How many letters and syllables are in tsp?

Letters3: T-S-P
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tsp?

Tsp appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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).

What rhymes with tsp?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tsp.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pst.

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 tsp

  • tsps plural
  • tsp.

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

What does tsp mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of teaspoon, a unit of measurement.

noun

as TSP
  1. 1

    Initialism of trisodium phosphate

  2. 2

    Initialism of travelling salesman problem.

  3. 3

    Initialism of textured soy protein (“textured vegetable protein”).

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

Tsp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense abbreviation for teaspoon:

LanguageWords
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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 tsp come from?

Abbreviation.

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

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