# rope

> English word · Noun · IPA /ɹəʊp/ · frequency rank #6,517

## Definitions
1. Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.
2. An individual length of such material.
3. A cohesive strand of something.
4. A continuous stream.
5. A hard line drive.
6. A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
9. A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.
10. A necklace of at least one meter in length.
11. Cordage of at least one inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
12. A unit of length equal to twenty feet.
13. Rohypnol.
14. Semen being ejaculated.
15. Death by hanging.
16. An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.
17. An apparatus, currently with limited use by the senior contestants and not used in world-wide tournaments.

## Etymology
From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots rape, raip (“rope”), Saterland Frisian Roop (“rope”), West Frisian reap (“rope, cord”), Dutch roop, reep (“rope, cord, ring, strip, bar”), German Low German Reep (“rope”), Swedish rep (“rope”), Danish reb (“rope”), Icelandic reipi (“rope”), Albanian rrip (“belt, rope”).

## Easily confused with
- **RP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rp)
- **row** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-row)
- **Roy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-roy)
- **rot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rot)
- **rue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rue)
- **RPG** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rpg)
- **rye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rye)
- **rpm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rpm)
- **ROS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-ros)
- **rule** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rule)
- **rose** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rose)
- **Ross** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-ross)
- **rude** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rude)
- **rows** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rows)
- **Rosa** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rosa)
- **Rory** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rory)
- **Roth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-roth)
- **Rowe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rowe)
- **rosy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-rosy)
- **Roxy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/rope-vs-roxy)

## Common misspellings (5)
`orpe`, `roep`, `roppe`, `rpoe`, `rrope`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/rope