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upchuck

noun, verb

upchuck is spelled U-P-C-H-U-C-K: 7 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, upchuck means “Vomit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in upchuck?

Letters7: U-P-C-H-U-C-K
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is upchuck?

Upchuck appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Forms of upchuck

  • upchucks present, singular, he/she/it
  • upchucking participle, present
  • upchucked participle, past

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

What does upchuck mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalVomit.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo vomit.

    Joel began to upchuck all over the grandstand.

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

Upchuck in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to vomit:

LanguageWords
Portuguesevomitar

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 upchuck come from?

From up- + chuck, from chuck up.

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

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