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XPS

noun

XPS is spelled X-P-S: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, XPS means “Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of XPS is XPSs.

How many letters and syllables are in XPS?

Letters3: X-P-S
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 42,145th 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 XPS?

XPS appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 42,145th 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 XPS

  • XPSs plural

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

What does XPS mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of extruded polystyrene (“plastic foam”).

  2. 2

    Initialism of transmit packet steering, a scaling technique for network traffic processing.

  3. 3

    Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.

  4. 4

    Initialism of X-ray photoelectron spectroscope.

noun

as XPs
  1. 1

    plural of XP (“X Phrase”) (a form of XP)

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

XPS in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy:

LanguageWords
FrenchXPS

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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