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hop

/hɑp/noun, verb

hop is spelled H-O-P: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “hop vs hope” about 10 times a month (Bing, United States). As a noun, hop means “A short jump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hop is hops.

How many letters and syllables are in hop?

Letters3: H-O-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Rhymes with
Same letters

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 common is hop?

Hop appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 hop?

  • UK /hɒp/
  • US /hɑp/
  • Australia /hɔp/

Hop 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-hop.ogg, En-au-hop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with hop

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

hop vs hope10 B

Also written: hop, skip and jump.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with hop?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hop from its last stressed vowel (/ɑp/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pho, poh.

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).

Forms of hop

  • hops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • hopping participle, present
  • hopped participle, past

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

What does hop mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A short jump.

    The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

  2. 2

    A jump on one leg.

  3. 3

    A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.

  4. 4

    informalA brief period of development or progress.

    For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.

  5. 5

    USA bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.

  6. 6

    UKUSdatedslangA dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.

  7. 7

    The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

  8. 8

    A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.

  9. 9

    The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.

  10. 10

    USslangOpium, or some other narcotic drug.

  11. 11

    The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.

  12. 12

    Synonym of half-op.

verb

  1. 1

    To jump a short distance.

  2. 2

    To jump on one foot.

  3. 3

    To be in state of energetic activity.

    Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.

  4. 4

    To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

    I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.

  5. 5

    To jump onto, or over

  6. 6

    To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

    We were party-hopping all weekend.

  7. 7

    informalTo go in a quick or sudden manner.

  8. 8

    informalTo dance.

  9. 9

    To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer

  10. 10

    To gather hops.

noun

as Hop
  1. 1

    AustraliaslangEllipsis of John Hop (“a police officer”).

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

Hop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Portuguesesalto, pulinho (a short jump), hop (sending of a data packet from one host to…), pulinhar, pulicar (jump a short distance), lúpulo (plant)
Spanishsalto (a short jump), saltar, dar saltitos (jump a short distance), lúpulo, hombrecillo (plant)
Frenchsauter à cloche-pied (jump a short distance), houblon (plant)
Germanhüpfen (jump a short distance), Hopfen (plant)

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 hop come from?

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”).

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

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