soppy
/ˈsɒpi/
"soppy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“soppy” is uncommon English (frequency #67,062 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,062
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Very wet; sodden, soaked.
Corpus desk
Index EN-soppy · soppy · English
soppy · rank #67,062 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,062
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH solus
Nearest frequency peer: solus (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “soppy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Solas
Solas
32,942 corpus weight
- solus
solus
32,940 corpus weight
- soppy
soppy
32,939 corpus weight
- soundboard
soundboard
32,938 corpus weight
- souped
souped
32,937 corpus weight
- Souris
Souris
32,936 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “soppy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | soppy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈsɒpi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,062 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “soppy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
soppy is uncommon English at frequency #67,062 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈsɒpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
soppy has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sop + y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”). The correct English form is soppy, spelled S-O-P-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Very wet; sodden, soaked.
- 2Overly sentimental, maudlin, schmaltzy.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how soppy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Yarmouth […] looked rather spongy and soppy, I thought, as I carried my eye over the great dull waste that lay across the river; and I could not help wondering, if the world were really as round as my geography book said, how any part of it came to be so flat.
'Goodness me!' said I to myself, 'whatever will become of sister's white satin shoes, if she has to walk about on soppy grass after such rain as this?'
Etymology
From sop + y. In sense 2, unrelated etymologically to sappy (“excessively emotional”).
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.
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