whoopsie
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.99 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
intj
noun
Alternative spelling of whoopsy (in all senses).
Example Sentences
- "Another, who usually fouled out early, would shout, “Whoopsie!” as she crashed into some opponent, thus advertising her misdemeanor."
- "Typically, they called its creator, Gabby, a bitch, a dyke, a "feminazi" even though (whoopsie!) Gabby's a man."
- "Some say – ‘Oh blimey, I didn’t realise my Spotify was connected to Facebook. Thanks for telling me. Everyone probably knows I listen to Jamiraquai,^([sic]) Space Cowboy all the time now, whoopsie!’"
- "“You can’t kill 100 schoolgirls and just say ‘whoopsie,’” he wrote to a colleague, as he read through social media posts."
Etymology
Etymology tree English whoops Proto-Germanic *-j-, *-ij- Proto-West Germanic *-i, *-ī Old English -iġ Middle English -y English -y English -ie English whoopsie From whoops + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).