yuppie
/ˈjʌpɪ/
"yuppie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yuppie” is uncommon English (frequency #59,822 among 366 “Y” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,822
- frequency rank, English
- 366
- “Y” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-yuppie · yuppie · English
yuppie · rank #59,822 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,822
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 366
- PHOTO-FINISH Yevgeny
Nearest frequency peer: Yevgeny (-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 “yuppie”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Yasmine
Yasmine
40,181 corpus weight
- Yevgeny
Yevgeny
40,180 corpus weight
- yuppie
yuppie
40,179 corpus weight
- zam
zam
40,178 corpus weight
- Zavala
Zavala
40,177 corpus weight
- zealously
zealously
40,176 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “yuppie” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | yuppie |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈjʌpɪ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,822 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “yuppie” in English
Rare enough to double-check
yuppie is uncommon English at frequency #59,822 among 366 “Y” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈjʌpɪ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for yuppie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Originally an acronym for young upwardly mobile professional or young urban professional, + -ie (suffix forming noun signifying person associated with suffixed noun). The correct English form is yuppie, spelled Y-U-P-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
Etymology
Originally an acronym for young upwardly mobile professional or young urban professional, + -ie (suffix forming noun signifying person associated with suffixed noun).
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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