ups
/ʌps/noun, adjective, verb
ups is spelled U-P-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,558th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, ups means “plural of up” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in ups?
| Letters | 3: U-P-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,558th 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 ups?
Ups appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,558th 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 ups?
- /ʌps/
Ups 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-ups.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with ups?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ups.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sup, pus.
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 ups
- more ups comparative
- most ups superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does ups mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
plural of up
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of up
noun
- 1
Initialism of uninterruptible power supply/source.
- 2
Initialism of ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy.
- 3
Initialism of ubiquitin-proteasome system.
verb
- 1
nonstandardTo connect a device to an uninterruptible power supply.
If you don't want to lose all your data when the power goes out, you should UPS your computer.
- 2
informalTo send a package or letter by UPS, or a competitor.
noun
- 1
plural of UP
adjective
- 1
colloquialAlternative spelling of upz (“outstanding”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Ups in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense (initialism) uninterruptible power supply:
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.