lope
/ləʊp/
"lope" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“lope” has 5 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,466. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,466
- frequency rank, English
- 2,297
- “L” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To travel an easy pace with long strides.
Corpus desk
Index EN-lope · lope · English
lope · rank #49,466 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,466
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,297
- PHOTO-FINISH lockup
Nearest frequency peer: lockup (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “lope”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Leninism
Leninism
50,541 corpus weight
- lithograph
lithograph
50,537 corpus weight
- lockup
lockup
50,536 corpus weight
- lope
lope
50,535 corpus weight
- loring
loring
50,533 corpus weight
- LSC
LSC
50,529 corpus weight
What this shows “lope” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | lope |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /ləʊp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #49,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “lope”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around lope (IPA /ləʊp/), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,466 among 2,297 “L” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for lope, with forms such as "llope", "loep", and "loppe". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "LP", "lot", "low", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap. The correct English form is lope, spelled L-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1To travel an easy pace with long strides.
- 2To jump, leap.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how lope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He loped along, hour after hour, not fast but steady and covering much ground.
Scott hurried down the dark path, lifted the canoe from the muddy rock to the moss, took out the packs, and loped back. toward the cabin. As he passed the window he glanced inside.
Etymology
From Middle English lopen, from Old Norse hlaupa (“to leap, jump”). See leap. Cognate with German laufen (“walk, run”), Danish løbe (“run”), Dutch lopen (“walk, run”), Norwegian løpe (“run”). Doublet of leap.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- llope
- loep
- loppe
- lpoe
- olpe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of lope - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).