sopping
"sopping" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sopping” is uncommon English (frequency #85,795 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,795
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
Corpus desk
Index EN-sopping · sopping · English
sopping · rank #85,795 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,795
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH sonofabitch
Nearest frequency peer: sonofabitch (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “sopping”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- solicitous
solicitous
14,210 corpus weight
- sonofabitch
sonofabitch
14,207 corpus weight
- sopping
sopping
14,206 corpus weight
- southeastwa…
southeastward
14,204 corpus weight
- soz
soz
14,203 corpus weight
- spasmodic
spasmodic
14,202 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “sopping” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sopping |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,795 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sopping” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sopping is uncommon English at frequency #85,795 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for sopping in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is sopping, spelled S-O-P-P-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.