dropped
/dɹɑpt/adjective, verb
dropped is spelled D-R-O-P-P-E-D. The wrong spelling people search most is droped: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Dropped is an adjective meaning “allowed to drop or fall”.
How many letters and syllables are in dropped?
| Letters | 7: D-R-O-P-P-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 54 times per million words; the 1,899th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, droped, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell dropped?
Dropped is spelled D-R-O-P-P-E-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for dropped in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is dropped?
Dropped appears 54 times per million words in written English, the 1,899th 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).
How do you pronounce dropped?
- US /dɹɑpt/
- US [dɹɑpt]
- US [d͡ʒɹɑpt]
Dropped has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-dropped.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with dropped?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as dropped from its last stressed vowel (/ɑpt/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does dropped mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
allowed to drop or fall.
- 2
suddenly disconnected.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of drop
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).