# scoop

> English word · Noun · IPA /skuːp/ · frequency rank #11,455

## Definitions
1. Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
2. The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
3. The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
4. A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
5. An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
6. The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
7. A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
8. A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
9. A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
10. A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
11. The peak of a cap.
12. A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
13. The raised end of a surfboard.
14. A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
15. A haul of money made through speculation.
16. A 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.

## Easily confused with
- **sop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-sop)
- **SCP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-scp)
- **stop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-stop)
- **soon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-soon)
- **shop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-shop)
- **soap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-soap)
- **soup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-soup)
- **sooo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-sooo)
- **Scot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-scot)
- **soot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-soot)
- **shoo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-shoo)
- **slop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-slop)
- **sook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-sook)
- **score** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-score)
- **shoot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-shoot)
- **Scott** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-scott)
- **stood** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-stood)
- **scope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-scope)
- **shook** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-shook)
- **scout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scoop-vs-scout)

## Common misspellings (7)
`csoop`, `sccoop`, `scoopp`, `scop`, `scopo`, `socop`, `sscoop`

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