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Is mop a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word mop is a Scrabble US word. The word mop is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

M3O1P3

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Yes. The word mop is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

M3O1P3

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You can make 6 words from 'mop' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

3 letters words from 'mop'

MOP 7POM 7

2 letters words from 'mop'

MO 4OM 4
OP 4PO 4

All 3 letters words made out of mop

mop omp mpo pmo opm pom

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Definitions and meaning of mop

mop

Etymology

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian). Compare Modern Hebrew מפה‎ (mapá, “a map; a cloth”) (shortened from מנָפָה‎ (manpah, “fluttering banner, streaming cloth”)). More at map.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɒp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /mɑp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

mop (plural mops)

  1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.
  2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.
  3. (humorous) A dense head of hair.
  4. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A fair where servants are hired.
  5. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) The young of any animal.
  6. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A young girl; a moppet.
  7. A made-up face; a grimace.
    • 1610, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 4 scene 1
      Before you can say 'Come' and 'Go,'
      And breathe twice; and cry 'so, so,'
      Each one, tripping on his toe,
      Will be here with mop and mow.
  8. (African-American Vernacular, MLE, slang) A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP)
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:firearm

Derived terms

  • mophead
  • mop squeezer
  • mop water

Descendants

  • German: Mopp

Translations

Verb

mop (third-person singular simple present mops, present participle mopping, simple past and past participle mopped)

  1. (transitive) To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.
  2. (intransitive) To make a wry expression with the mouth.
  3. (US, slang) To shoplift.
    • 2013, Martha Gever, ‎Pratibha Parmar, ‎John Greyson, Queer Looks (page 111)
      By “mopping” (stealing) the clothes and accessories necessary to effect their look, or by buying breasts, reconstructed noses, lifted chins, and female genitals, the children turn traditional ideas of labor around: […]

Translations

References

  • (fair where servants are hired): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

  • MPO, OPM, PMO, POM, Pom, pom

Cameroon Pidgin

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔp/

Noun

mop

  1. mouth

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔp/
  • Hyphenation: mop
  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

The now-obsolete sense brick, attested from the 17th century, appears to be the oldest, with the sense cookie following in the 18th century. The exact relationship between the various later senses is unclear. The ultimate origin is unclear, but possibly corrupted from mok (“mug, cup”).

Noun

mop m (plural moppen, diminutive mopje n)

  1. a joke, jest
  2. a tune, melody
  3. a type of cookie
  4. (endearing, often in the diminutive) a woman or girl
  5. (obsolete) a brick
Usage notes
  • The use as an affectionate term of address is often as a diminutive, and specifically in the non-standard form moppie. The standard diminutive mopje is never used for this sense.
Synonyms
  • grap
Derived terms
  • Belgenmop
  • kloostermop
  • moppenboek
  • moppentrommel
  • Nederlandermop
Descendants
  • → Indonesian: mop (only found in the phrase April Mop)

References

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English mop.

Noun

mop m (plural mops, diminutive mopje n)

  1. a mop (an implement for washing floors, etc.)
    Synonym: zwabber, dekzwabber
Descendants
  • → Papiamentu: mòp

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

mop

  1. first-person singular present indicative of moppen
  2. imperative of moppen

Polish

Etymology

From English mop.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔp/
  • Hyphenation: mop
  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

mop m inan

  1. mop (implement for washing floors)
    Hypernym: szczotka

Declension

Derived terms

  • (verb) mopować

Further reading

  • mop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From English mop.

Noun

mop n (plural mopuri)

  1. mop (an implement for washing floors)

Declension


Source: wiktionary.org
  • to clean with a sponge on a stick.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)