lop
/lɑp/verb, noun
lop is spelled L-O-P: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, lop means “To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in lop?
| Letters | 3: L-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 41,660th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is lop?
Lop appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,660th 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 lop?
- UK /lɒp/
- British /lɔp/
- US /lɑp/
Lop 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-I_learned_some_phrases-lop.wav, En-au-lop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with lop?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as lop from its last stressed vowel (/ɑp/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pol.
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 lop
- lops present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- lopping participle, present
- lopped participle, past
- lopt participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does lop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- 2
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- 3
To allow to hang down.
to lop the head
noun
- 1
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
- 2
A flea.
Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
- 3
USdatedslang(usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
- 4
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Lop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cut off:
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 lop come from?
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).