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wassup

/wəˈsʌp/interjection

wassup is spelled W-A-S-S-U-P: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an interjection, wassup means “what's up? (as a greeting)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in wassup?

Letters6: W-A-S-S-U-P
Syllables2 (from its pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 4 million words; the 60,838th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is wassup?

Wassup appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 60,838th 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 wassup?

  • US /wəˈsʌp/
  • UK /wɒˈsʌp/
  • UK /wəˈsʌp/

Wassup has 2 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-wassup.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with wassup?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as wassup from its last stressed vowel (/ʌp/):

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 wassup

  • wassap
  • whassup
  • wazzup
  • wazup
  • whazzup
  • wasup
  • whasup
  • whazup
  • wuddup
  • whuddup
  • wazzap

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

What does wassup mean?

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

interjection

  1. 1

    USslangwhat's up? (as a greeting)

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

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