whoopee
/ʍupi/
"whoopee" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“whoopee” is uncommon English (frequency #79,189 among 1,759 “W” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,189
- frequency rank, English
- 1,759
- “W” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A spontaneous expression of delight or joy.
Corpus desk
Index EN-whoopee · whoopee · English
whoopee · rank #79,189 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,189
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,759
- PHOTO-FINISH Wheaties
Nearest frequency peer: Wheaties (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “whoopee”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Wenceslas
Wenceslas
20,815 corpus weight
- Wenham
Wenham
20,814 corpus weight
- Wheaties
Wheaties
20,813 corpus weight
- whoopee
whoopee
20,812 corpus weight
- Winstanley
Winstanley
20,809 corpus weight
- Wint
Wint
20,808 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “whoopee” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | whoopee |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | /ʍupi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “whoopee” in English
Rare enough to double-check
whoopee is uncommon English at frequency #79,189 among 1,759 “W” headwords, classed as aninterjection, transcribed /ʍupi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A spontaneous expression of delight or joy.".
No misspelling variants are generated for whoopee in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is whoopee, spelled W-H-O-O-P-E-E.
Definition
- 1A spontaneous expression of delight or joy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how whoopee appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Whoopee! I won!
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).