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scrap

/ˈskɹæp/noun, verb

scrap is spelled S-C-R-A-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “scrap vs scrape” about 30 times a month (Bing, United States). As a noun, scrap means “A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scrap is scraps.

How many letters and syllables are in scrap?

Letters5: S-C-R-A-P
Syllables1
In writing7.9 times per million words; the 8,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); 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 scrap?

Scrap appears 7.9 times per million words in written English, the 8,266th 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 scrap?

  • /ˈskɹæp/

Scrap has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-scrap.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with scrap

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

scrap vs scrape30 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with scrap?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as scrap.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: craps, scarp.

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 scrap

  • scraps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • scrapping participle, present
  • scrapped participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does scrap mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

    I found a scrap of cloth to patch the hole.

  2. 2

    The smallest amount.

    I don't care a scrap.

  3. 3

    Leftover food.

    Give the scraps to the animals: any meat to the dogs, and the rest to the hogs.

  4. 4

    The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat.

    pork scraps

  5. 5

    Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk.

    That car isn't good for anything but scrap.

  6. 6

    UKA piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips.

  7. 7

    Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades.

  8. 8

    offensiveA Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang.

  9. 9

    A fight, tussle, skirmish.

    We got in a little scrap over who should pay the bill.

verb

  1. 1

    To discard; to get rid of.

  2. 2

    To stop working on (a project or plan) indefinitely.

  3. 3

    To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks.

  4. 4

    To dispose of at a scrapyard.

  5. 5

    To make into scrap.

  6. 6

    to fight

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Scrap in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbribe, bout (small piece, fragment), ferraille (discarded objects), abandonner, laisser tomber (to discard), litige (fight)
GermanStückchen, Fetzen (small piece, fragment), Altmaterial, Altmetall, Schrott, Abfall (discarded objects)
Portugueseapara, retalho (small piece, fragment), sucata (discarded objects), jogar fora (to discard)
Spanishresto (small piece, fragment), chatarra (discarded objects), quitar, desechar, descartar (to discard), desguazar (to dispose at the scrapyard)

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 scrap come from?

From Middle English scrappe, from Old Norse skrap, from skrapa (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Germanic *skrapōną, *skrepaną (“to scrape, scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skreb-, *skrep- (“to engrave”). Cf. Swedish skräp (“garbage”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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