nop
/nɔp/noun, verb, interjection
nop is spelled N-O-P: 3 letters. It appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nop means “A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nop is nops.
How many letters and syllables are in nop?
| Letters | 3: N-O-P |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 4 million words; the 61,481st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); 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 nop?
Nop appears about once in every 4 million words in written English, the 61,481st 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 nop?
- UK /nɒp/
- US /nɔp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-nop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with nop
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: nope.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with nop?
3 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nop from its last stressed vowel (/ɔp/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pon.
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 nop
- nops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- nopping participle, present
- nopped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A no-op; a CPU instruction that does nothing.
verb
- 1
To replace machine code with nop instructions when modifying software.
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of nop.
verb
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of nop.
interjection
- 1
informalrareAlternative form of nope.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).