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USP

adjective, noun

USP is spelled U-S-P: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, USP means “Adhering to the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia; used after a drug's name” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in USP?

Letters3: U-S-P
In writingabout once in every 1 million words; the 32,798th 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 USP?

USP appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 32,798th 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 USP

  • USPs plural

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

What does USP mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    USAdhering to the standards of the United States Pharmacopeia; used after a drug's name.

    Clarithromycin Tablets, USP

noun

  1. 1

    USEllipsis of USP unit.

  2. 2

    Initialism of unique selling proposition/selling point.

  3. 3

    Initialism of user stored procedure.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of ultra-short period planet.

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

Where does USP come from?

Initialism of United States Pharmacopeia.

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

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