slurp
/slɜːp/
"slurp" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slurp” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,639
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To eat or drink noisily.
Corpus desk
Index EN-slurp · slurp · English
slurp · rank #49,639 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,639
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sleepiness
Nearest frequency peer: sleepiness (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “slurp”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- shutdowns
shutdowns
50,367 corpus weight
- Sif
Sif
50,365 corpus weight
- skirted
skirted
50,364 corpus weight
- sleepiness
sleepiness
50,363 corpus weight
- slurp
slurp
50,362 corpus weight
- soundness
soundness
50,359 corpus weight
What this shows “slurp” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slurp |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /slɜːp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #49,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “slurp”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around slurp (IPA /slɜːp/), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,639 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for slurp, with forms such as "lsurp", "sllurp", and "slrup". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sup", "sure", "soup", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvj… The correct English form is slurp, spelled S-L-U-R-P.
Definition
- 1To eat or drink noisily.
- 2To make a loud sucking noise.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how slurp appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
As the crowd cackles and caws, a white-backed vulture snakes its head deep into the wildebeest’s eye socket and hurriedly slurps, with grooved tongue, whatever it can before being ripped from its place at the table.
Etymology
From Middle Dutch slurpen, slorpen (“to sip, slurp”), from Old Dutch *slurpan, from Proto-West Germanic *slurp- (“to sip, slurp”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *srebʰ-, *srobʰ- (“to sip, slurp, gulp”). Cognate with West Frisian sloarpe, sloarpje, slurvje (“to slurp”), German schlürfen (“to sip, slurp”), Swedish slurpa (“to slurp”), Norwegian slurpe (“to slurp”). Compare also Saterland Frisian slubberje (“to slurp”), German Low German slubbern (“to slurp”), Middle High German sluppern (“to slurp”), Swedish, Norwegian, and Icelandic slupra (“to slurp”), Middle High German sürfeln, sürpfeln (“to sip, slurp”), Latin sorbeō (“to suck up, imbibe, absorb”). Often treated as onomatopoeic in modern writing.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- lsurp
- sllurp
- slrup
- slupr
- slurpp
- slurrp
- sslurp
- sulrp
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of slurp - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Same letter count
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Similar misspelling depth
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