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slop

/slɑp/noun, verb

slop is spelled S-L-O-P: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, slop means “A flip-flop” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of slop is slops.

How many letters and syllables are in slop?

Letters4: S-L-O-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 41,154th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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 slop?

Slop appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th 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 slop?

  • British /slɒp/
  • /slɔp/
  • US /slɑp/

Slop 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-us-slop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with slop?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as slop from its last stressed vowel (/ɑp/):

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 slop

  • slops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • slopping participle, present
  • slopped participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does slop mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA loose outer garment; a jacket or overall.

  2. 2

    A flip-flop.

  3. 3

    Any semisolid substance; goo, paste, pulp.

  4. 4

    Soft, liquid mud or snow.

  5. 5

    Liquid carelessly spilled upon a surface; a soiled spot.

  6. 6

    Any inferior, weak, or unappetizing drink or semi-liquid food.

  7. 7

    Scraps used as food for animals, especially pigs or hogs.

  8. 8

    datedHuman urine or excrement.

  9. 9

    Domestic wastewater.

  10. 10

    slangFellatio.

  11. 11

    A policeman.

verb

  1. 1

    To spill or dump liquid upon; to soil with a spilled liquid.

    I slopped water all over my shirt.

  2. 2

    In a game of pool or snooker, to pocket a ball by accident; in billiards, to make an ill-considered shot.

  3. 3

    To feed pigs.

  4. 4

    To make one's way through soggy terrain.

adjective

  1. 1

    obsoleteBeing or relating to slops (cheap or ready-made clothing).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Slop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchbouillie, bouillasse (semi-solid substance), soupe (content or entertainment which is worthless)
GermanMatsch (semi-solid substance), Schweinefutter (scraps which are fed to pigs)
Portugueselodo (semi-solid substance), porcaria (content or entertainment which is worthless), lavagem (scraps which are fed to pigs), gororoba (inferior, weak drink or liquid food), entornar (to spill or dump liquid)
Spanishpuaj (semi-solid substance), slop (content or entertainment which is worthless), bazofia, porquería (scraps which are fed to pigs)

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 slop come from?

From Middle English slop, sloppe, slope, from Old English *slop (found in oferslop (“an outergarment, surplice”)). Cognate with Icelandic sloppur (“a long, loose gown”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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