yuppie
/ˈjʌpɪ/
"yuppie" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“yuppie” is an uncommon English word, ranked #59,822 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #59,822
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A young upwardly mobile urban professional person with an affluent lifestyle.
| 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) |
Where “yuppie” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for yuppie is 6 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈjʌpɪ/. Corpus data places it at rank #59,822 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “yuppie”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Y-U-P-P-I-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.