skip rope

noun

"skip-rope" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“skip rope” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The rope used in this activity.

Corpus desk

Index EN-skip-rope · skip rope · English

skip rope · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for skip rope
PropertyValue
Headwordskip rope
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “skip rope” in English

skip roperanks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

skip rope is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The rope used in this activity.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for skip rope in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is skip rope, spelled S-K-I-P- -R-O-P-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The rope used in this activity.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how skip rope appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?

Synonyms

jump ropeskipping rope

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "skip rope"?
"skip rope" is spelled S-K-I-P- -R-O-P-E.
What does "skip rope" mean?
As a noun, "skip rope" means: The rope used in this activity.
What language does "skip rope" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list