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fops

/fɑps/noun

fops is a noun meaning “A fox” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-O-P-S, and it appears about once in every 29 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fops is fopses.

What does fops mean?

noun

  1. 1

    slangA fox.

  2. 2

    plural of fop (a form of fop)

noun

as FOPs
  1. 1

    plural of FOP (a form of FOP)

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

How do you pronounce fops?

  • UK /fɒps/
  • US /fɑps/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-NaomiAmethyst-fops.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of fops

  • fopses plural

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

How common is fops?

Fops appears about once in every 29 million words in written English, the 163,711th 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).