shoop
/ʃup/noun, interjection, verb
shoop is spelled S-H-O-O-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shoop means “The fruit of the rose; rosehip” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shoop is shoops or sheep.
How many letters and syllables are in shoop?
| Letters | 5: S-H-O-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 68,248th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 shoop?
Shoop appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 68,248th 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 shoop?
- UK /ʃuːp/
- US /ʃup/
Shoop has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-shoop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with shoop?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as shoop from its last stressed vowel (/up/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: hoops, posho.
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 shoop
- shoops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- shoup
- choop
- sheep plural
- shooping participle, present
- shooped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does shoop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The fruit of the rose; rosehip.
- 2
nonstandardUsed as a singular form of sheep: an individual sheep.
- 3
An image that has been modified using Adobe Photoshop or similar image-manipulation software to produce a misleading impression; an instance of amateur, petty fauxtography.
interjection
- 1
Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
verb
- 1
To digitally alter an image.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does shoop come from?
From Middle English schoupe, from Old Norse *hjúpa (“rosehip”), from Proto-Germanic *heupǭ (“haw, hawthorn, thornbush, rosehip”). Cognate with Faroese hjúpa (“rosehip”), Old English hēope (“hip, rosehip”). Doublet of hip.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).