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whoopy

adjective

whoopy is spelled W-H-O-O-P-Y: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, whoopy means “Being or making a whooping sound; characterized by whoops” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in whoopy?

Letters6: W-H-O-O-P-Y
In writingabout once in every 91 million words; the 305,310th 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 whoopy?

Whoopy appears about once in every 91 million words in written English, the 305,310th 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 whoopy

  • more whoopy comparative
  • most whoopy superlative

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

What does whoopy mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Being or making a whooping sound; characterized by whoops.

    a whoopy crowd

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

Where does whoopy come from?

From whoop + -y.

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

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