hopped up

adj

"hopped-up" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“hopped up” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - Drugged; intoxicated.

Corpus desk

Index EN-hopped-up · hopped up · English

hopped up · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for hopped up
PropertyValue
Headwordhopped up
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechAdjective
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “hopped up” sits in English frequency

hopped up falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

hopped up is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hopped up, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is hopped up, spelled H-O-P-P-E-D- -U-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    Drugged; intoxicated.
  2. 2
    Mechanically enhanced for high performance; souped-up.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how hopped up appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. You could see in his eyes that he was hopped up on goofballs.
  2. His car featured a hopped up Mercury engine and sported the fender skirts and DeSoto bumpers that were popular on hot rods of the era.

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "hopped up"?
"hopped up" is spelled H-O-P-P-E-D- -U-P.
What does "hopped up" mean?
As an adjective, "hopped up" means: Drugged; intoxicated.
What language does "hopped up" come from?
"hopped up" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list