slurp
/slɝp/verb, noun
slurp is spelled S-L-U-R-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, slurp means “To eat or drink noisily” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in slurp?
| Letters | 5: S-L-U-R-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 49,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 slurp?
Slurp appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 49,368th 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 slurp?
- UK /slɜːp/
- US /slɝp/
Slurp 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-slurp.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with slurp?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as slurp from its last stressed vowel (/ɜɹp/):
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 slurp
- slurps present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- slurping participle, present
- slurped participle, past
- shlurp
- slorp
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does slurp mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To eat or drink noisily.
They sat in the kitchen slurping their spaghetti.
- 2
To make a loud sucking noise.
The mud slurped under our shoes.
noun
- 1
A loud sucking noise, especially one made in eating or drinking.
- 2
A mouthful of liquid sucked up.
I took another slurp of my soup.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Slurp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense eat or drink noisily:
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 slurp come from?
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”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).