sloop
/sluːp/noun
sloop is spelled S-L-O-O-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sloop means “A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sloop is sloops.
How many letters and syllables are in sloop?
| Letters | 5: S-L-O-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 36,998th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 sloop?
Sloop appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 36,998th 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 sloop?
- /sluːp/
Sloop 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sloop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sloop?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as sloop.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: spool.
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 sloop
- sloops plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sloop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A single-masted sailboat with only one headsail.
- 2
A sailing warship, smaller than a frigate, with its guns all on one deck.
- 3
A sloop-of-war, smaller than a frigate, larger than a corvette.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sloop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense single-masted sailboat:
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 sloop come from?
Borrowed from Dutch sloep. Doublet of chalupa and shallop.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).