Skip to main content

uwu

/ˈuːwuː/adjective

uwu is spelled U-W-U: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, uwu means “Innocently, often cloyingly cute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in uwu?

Letters3: U-W-U
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd 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 uwu?

Uwu appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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 uwu?

  • /ˈuːwuː/
  • /ˈʊwʊ/
  • [ˈʉː.w̟ʉw]

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

Forms of uwu

  • more uwu comparative
  • most uwu superlative

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

What does uwu mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Innocently, often cloyingly cute.

adjective

as UwU
  1. 1

    Alternative form of uwu.

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

Where does uwu come from?

Derived from Translingual uwu.

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

What to look up after uwu