sop
/sɑp/noun, verb
sop is spelled S-O-P: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sop means “Something entirely soaked” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sop is sops.
How many letters and syllables are in sop?
| Letters | 3: S-O-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 34,063rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| 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 sop?
Sop appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 34,063rd 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 sop?
- UK /sɒp/
- US /sɑp/
Sop 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-sop.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with sop?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sop from its last stressed vowel (/ɑp/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ops, pos.
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 sop
- sops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sopping participle, present
- sopped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sop mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Something entirely soaked.
- 2
A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
- 3
Ellipsis of sop to Cerberus, something given or done to pacify or bribe.
The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.
- 4
derogatoryEllipsis of milksop, a weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person.
- 5
Gravy.
- 6
A thing of little or no value.
- 7
A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.
- 8
informalClipping of soprano.
verb
- 1
To steep or dip in any liquid.
- 2
To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.
noun
- 1
Initialism of sex on or over the phone.
- 2
Initialism of standard operating procedure.
- 3
Initialism of start of production.
- 4
Initialism of setting-out point.
- 5
Initialism of system/systems of provision.
- 6
Initialism of sum of parts.
- 7
Initialism of same-origin policy.
- 8
Initialism of super operator (“an IRC user with special privileges”).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“system/systems of provision”).
- 2
Alternative letter-case form of SOP (“sum of parts”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense something given or done to pacify or bribe:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Beruhigungspille, Besänftigungsmittel, Beschwichtigungsmittel |
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 sop come from?
From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). Doublet of soup; more at sup.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).