scoop
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "scoop", 5-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Wiktionary, and usage frequency ranked against an open word-frequency list covering the top 100,000 English words. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "scoop" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "scoop" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
scoop is aEnglishnoun. It means: Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material. Pronounced /skuːp/. Often confused with sop and SCP.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | scoop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /skuːp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #11,455 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for scoop is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /skuːp/. Corpus data places it at rank #11,455 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 16 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for scoop, with forms such as "csoop", "sccoop", and "scoopp". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sop", "SCP", "stop", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppij… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is scoop, spelled S-C-O-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- 2The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- 3The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- 4A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- 5An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
- 6The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
- 7A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- 8A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
- 9A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
- 10A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
- 11The peak of a cap.
- 12A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
- 13The raised end of a surfboard.
- 14A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
- 15A haul of money made through speculation.
- 16A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
Etymology
From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: csoop,sccoop,scoopp,scop,scopo,socop,sscoop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for scoop
Misspelling Variants of "scoop"
Frequency rank: #11,455 in English
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