nope
/noʊp/particle, noun
nope is spelled N-O-P-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a particle, nope means “No” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in nope?
| Letters | 4: N-O-P-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th 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 and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 nope?
Nope appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 nope?
- UK /nəʊp/
- US /noʊp/
- US [noʊp̚]
As a noun (“A bullfinch”): /nəʊp/.
Nope 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: En-au-nope.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with nope
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: nop.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with nope?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as nope from its last stressed vowel (/oʊp/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: open, peon, pone, nepo.
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 nope
- nopes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- noping participle, present
- noped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nope mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
particle
- 1
informalNo.
noun
- 1
informalA negative reply, no.
I'll take that as a nope, then.
- 2
slangAn intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
- 3
A blow to the head.
- 4
archaicA bullfinch.
verb
- 1
archaicTo hit someone on the head.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nope in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense informal "no":
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 nope come from?
Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Luick instead claims it represents a realisation of no with final [ʔ], with a purported reduction of /p/ to [ʔ] before syllabic liquids providing a model for the spelling of [ʔ] as -pe, but it is more parsimonious to assume that the -pe directly represents attested realisations with [p̚]. Therefore no + -p. Compare yep/yup.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).