shop
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "shop", 4-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "shop" 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 "shop" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
shop is aEnglishnoun. It means: An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well. Pronounced /ʃɒp/. It ranks #1,408 in English word frequency. Often confused with so and SP.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɒp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for shop is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ʃɒp/. Corpus data places it at rank #1,408 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for shop, with forms such as "hsop", "shhop", and "shopp". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "so", "SP", "son", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), … 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 shop, spelled S-H-O-P, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
- 2A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
- 3A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
- 4Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
- 5Discussion of business or professional affairs.
- 6A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
- 7An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
- 8An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
- 9The collective items bought (or to be bought) on a shopping trip.
Etymology
From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”). Cognate with Dutch schop (“spade, kick”), German Schuppen (“shed”), German Schober (“barn”), French échoppe (“booth, shop”) (< Germanic). The verb is denominal. The noun senses “act of shopping”, “purchased items” are backformed from the verb.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: hsop,shhop,shopp,shpo,sohp,sshop
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for shop
Misspelling Variants of "shop"
Frequency rank: #1,408 in English
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