scop
/ʃɒp/noun
scop is spelled S-C-O-P: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scop means “A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scop is scops.
How many letters and syllables are in scop?
| Letters | 4: S-C-O-P |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 17 million words; the 122,704th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is scop?
Scop appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 122,704th 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 scop?
- /ʃɒp/
- /ʃoʊp/
- /skɒp/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scop?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as scop.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: cops.
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 scop
- scops plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A poet or minstrel in Anglo-Saxon England.
noun
- 1
Initialism of seasonal coefficient of performance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does scop come from?
Learned borrowing from Old English sċop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).