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floppy

/ˈflɒ.pi/adjective, noun

floppy is spelled F-L-O-P-P-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is floppie: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 41 of all searches for the word. Floppy is an adjective meaning “Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible”.

How many letters and syllables are in floppy?

Letters6: F-L-O-P-P-Y
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, floppie, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell floppy?

Floppy is spelled F-L-O-P-P-Y. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 41 of the searches for floppy in either form.

floppythe right spelling400 searches a month
floppiean extra i, e in place of y10 searches a month

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 floppy?

Floppy appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 floppy?

  • /ˈflɒ.pi/

Floppy has 2 syllables (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-floppy.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of floppy

  • floppier comparative
  • floppiest superlative
  • floppies plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does floppy mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Limp, not hard, firm, or rigid; flexible.

noun

  1. 1

    datedA floppy disk.

  2. 2

    slangAn insurgent in the Rhodesian Bush War, called as such for the way they "flop" when shot.

  3. 3

    informalA comic book.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Floppy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchsouple (limp, not hard, firm or rigid; flexible), disquette ((computing) a floppy disk)
Germanschlaff (limp, not hard, firm or rigid; flexible), Diskette, Floppy Disc ((computing) a floppy disk)
Portugueseflexível (limp, not hard, firm or rigid; flexible), disco flexível ((computing) a floppy disk)
Spanishflojo, desplomoso, colapsoso (limp, not hard, firm or rigid; flexible), disquete ((computing) a floppy disk)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does floppy come from?

From flop + -y.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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