# shop

> English word · Noun · IPA /ʃɒp/ · frequency rank #1,408

## Definitions
1. An establishment that sells goods or services to the public; originally only a physical location, but now a virtual establishment as well.
2. A place where things are manufactured or crafted; a workshop.
3. A large garage where vehicle mechanics work.
4. Workplace; office. Used mainly in expressions such as shop talk, closed shop and shop floor.
5. Discussion of business or professional affairs.
6. A variety of classes taught in junior or senior high school that teach vocational skills.
7. An establishment where a barber or beautician works.
8. An act of shopping, especially routine shopping for food and other domestic supplies.
9. The 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.

## Easily confused with
- **so** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-so)
- **SP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sp)
- **son** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-son)
- **shy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-shy)
- **sox** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sox)
- **sol** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sol)
- **sip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sip)
- **soy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-soy)
- **SNP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-snp)
- **sup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sup)
- **sow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sow)
- **SOS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sos)
- **SOB** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sob)
- **sod** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sod)
- **som** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-som)
- **soe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-soe)
- **sop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sop)
- **soi** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-soi)
- **SoA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-soa)
- **sou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/shop-vs-sou)

## Common misspellings (6)
`hsop`, `shhop`, `shopp`, `shpo`, `sohp`, `sshop`

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