droopy
/ˈdɹuːpi/
"droopy" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“droopy” is an uncommon English word, ranked #52,908 in English word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #52,908
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | droopy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈdɹuːpi/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #52,908 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “droopy” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for droopy is 6 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈdɹuːpi/. Corpus data places it at rank #52,908 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for droopy, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English drupi, from drup (“sad”), from Old Norse drúpr (“drooping sadness”); related to Middle English drupen, droupen (“to sag, droop”), also from Old Norse. By surface analysis, droop + -y. The correct English form is droopy, spelled D-R-O-O-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Tending to droop; sagging; wilting.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English drupi, from drup (“sad”), from Old Norse drúpr (“drooping sadness”); related to Middle English drupen, droupen (“to sag, droop”), also from Old Norse. By surface analysis, droop + -y.
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 “droopy”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-O-O-P-Y - 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.