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stoop

/stup/noun, verb

stoop is spelled S-T-O-O-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stoop means “A stooping, bent position of the body” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stoop is stoops.

How many letters and syllables are in stoop?

Letters5: S-T-O-O-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.4 times per million words; the 24,170th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 stoop?

Stoop appears 1.4 times per million words in written English, the 24,170th 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 stoop?

  • UK /stuːp/
  • US /stup/
  • /stʉp/

Stoop 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-stoop.wav, En-NYC-stoop.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with stoop?

11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stoop from its last stressed vowel (/up/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: topos.

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 stoop

  • stoops plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stooping participle, present
  • stooped participle, past
  • stoup
  • stowp

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stoop mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A stooping, bent position of the body.

    The old man walked with a stoop.

  2. 2

    An accelerated descent in flight, as that for an attack.

  3. 3

    A vessel for holding liquids; like a flagon but without the spout.

  4. 4

    CanadaThe staircase and landing or porch leading to the entrance of a residence.

    ...the entrance being at the side of the house and reached by a low front stoop with four or five risers...

  5. 5

    USThe threshold of a doorway; a doorstep.

  6. 6

    A post or pillar, especially a gatepost or a support in a mine.

verb

  1. 1

    To bend the upper part of the body forward and downward to a half-squatting position; crouch.

    He stooped to tie his shoe-laces.

  2. 2

    To lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing something below one's status, standards, or morals.

    Can you believe that a salesman would stoop so low as to hide his customers' car keys until they agreed to the purchase?

  3. 3

    Of a bird of prey: to swoop down on its prey.

  4. 4

    To cause to incline downward; to slant.

    to stoop a cask of liquor

  5. 5

    To cause to submit; to prostrate.

  6. 6

    To yield; to submit; to bend, as by compulsion; to assume a position of humility or subjection.

  7. 7

    To descend from rank or dignity; to condescend.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Stoop in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Germangebückte Haltung (body position), sich bücken, sich beugen (to bend the upper part of the body forward and…), sich erniedrigen, sich herabwürdigen (to lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing…), sich stürzen (to swoop down on its prey)
Frenchse baisser, se pencher (to bend the upper part of the body forward and…), s'abaisser à (to lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing…), piquer (to swoop down on its prey), piqué (accelerated descent in flight), perron (small porch)
Portugueseinclinar-se, curvar-se (to bend the upper part of the body forward and…)
Spanishagacharse (to bend the upper part of the body forward and…), rebajarse (to lower oneself; to demean oneself in doing…), porche, zaguán (small porch)

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 stoop come from?

From Middle English stoupen, from Old English stūpian (“to bow, bend”), from Proto-West Germanic *stūpōn, from Proto-Germanic *stūpōną, *stūpijaną (“to stand out”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewb- (“to push, butt, knock”). Compare steep. Cognate with Dutch stuipen (“to bend the upper part of the body forward and downward”), Old Norse stúpa (“to stoop”). Related also to Old Frisian stēpa (“to help”), Old Norse steypa (“to cause to stoop, cast down, overthrow”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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