ulp
/ʌlp/interjection, noun
ulp is an interjection meaning “The sound of a person gulping in fear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled U-L-P, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does ulp mean?
interjection
- 1
The sound of a person gulping in fear.
noun
- 1
The value that the least significant digit of a floating-point number represents, used as a measure of accuracy in numeric calculations.
noun
- 1
Initialism of ubiquitin-like protein.
- 2
Abbreviation of ultra-luminous pulsar.
- 3
USInitialism of unfair labor practice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce ulp?
- US /ʌlp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-ulp.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of ulp
- ulps plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is ulp?
Ulp appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).
Where does ulp come from?
Imitative, or possibly a variant of gulp.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).