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upmost

/ˈʌpmoʊst/adjective

upmost is spelled U-P-M-O-S-T: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “upmost vs utmost” about 8,100 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, upmost means “Uppermost” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in upmost?

Letters6: U-P-M-O-S-T
In writingabout once in every 7 million words; the 80,453rd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); 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).

How common is upmost?

Upmost appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 80,453rd 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 upmost?

  • US /ˈʌpmoʊst/
  • US [ˈʌʔmoʊst]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-upmost.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with upmost

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What does upmost mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Uppermost.

  2. 2

    Eggcorn of utmost.

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

Where does upmost come from?

From Middle English upmest; equivalent to up + -most.

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

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