Skip to main content

kop

UK /kɒp/noun

kop is spelled K-O-P: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, kop means “A hill or mountain” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of kop is kops.

How many letters and syllables are in kop?

Letters3: K-O-P
In writingabout once in every 3 million words; the 48,775th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is kop?

Kop appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,775th 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 kop?

  • UK /kɒp/

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

Words people confuse with kop

Sounds like: cop (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with kop?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as kop from its last stressed vowel (/ɒp/, British pronunciation):

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 kop

  • kops plural

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

What does kop mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A hill or mountain.

  2. 2

    rareRare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).

noun

as Kop
  1. 1

    UKA terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.

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

Where does kop come from?

From Afrikaans kop, from Dutch kop, from Middle Dutch cop.

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

What to look up after kop