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Yes. The word nope is a Scrabble US word. The word nope is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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4-letter words (4 found)

NOPE,OPEN,PEON,PONE,

3-letter words (5 found)

EON,NEP,ONE,OPE,PEN,

2-letter words (8 found)

EN,NE,NO,OE,ON,OP,PE,PO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 18 words from nope according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of nope

nope onpe npoe pnoe opne pone noep onep neop enop oenp eonp npeo pneo nepo enpo peno epno open poen oepn eopn peon epon

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Definitions and meaning of nope

nope

Etymology 1

Representing no pronounced with the mouth snapped closed at the end. Compare yep, welp, ope, and yup.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /noʊp/, [noʊp̚]
  • Rhymes: -əʊp

Particle

nope

  1. (informal, often emphatic) No.
Usage notes

The usage as a reply in the form of a single-word sentence has, since the 1850s, been far more common than any others.

Antonyms
  • yup
  • yep
  • yeah
Derived terms
  • nope rope
Descendants
  • → Italian: nop
  • → Portuguese: nop
  • → Spanish: nop
Translations

Noun

nope (plural nopes)

  1. (informal) A negative reply, no.
    • 1981, Tom Higgins, Practice quick...and swim, read in Dale Earnhardt: Rear View Mirror, Sports Publishing LLC, →ISBN (2001), p. 32
      By one reporter's count, questions about the change elicited seven shakes of the head indicating no comment, five "yeps" and three "nopes" from Earnhardt.
  2. (slang) An intensely undesirable thing, such as a circumstance or an animal, eliciting immediate repulsion without possibility of further consideration.
    • 2016, Sam Plank, This Cemetery With A Haunted Playground Is A Casket Full Of Nope, Movie Pilot, [1]
      This cemetery with a haunted playground is a casket full of nope.
Derived terms
  • nope out
  • Nopeville
Translations

Etymology 2

Probably a rebracketing of an ope (see 1823 quote), from alp.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nəʊp/
  • Rhymes: -əʊp

Noun

nope (plural nopes)

  1. (archaic, except near Staffordshire) A bullfinch.
    • 1613, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, read in The Complete Works of Michael Drayton, Now First Collected. With Introductions and Notes by Richard Hooper. Volume 2. Poly-olbion Elibron Classics (2005) [facsimile of John Russell Smith (1876 ed)], p. 146,
      To Philomell the next, the Linnet we prefer;/And by that warbling bird, the Wood-Lark place we then, /The Reed-sparrow, the Nope, the Red-breast, and the Wren, /The Yellow-pate: which though she hurt the blooming tree, /Yet scarce hath any bird a finer pipe than she.
    • 1823, Edward Moor, Suffolk Words and Phrases: or, An attempt to collect the lingual localisms of that county, R. Hunter, p. 255
      I may note that olp, if pronounced ope, as it sometimes is, may be the origin of nope; an ope, and a nope, differ as little as possible.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:nope.

Etymology 3

Possibly influenced by nape and knap.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nəʊp/

Noun

nope (plural nopes)

  1. (East Midlands and Northern England) A blow to the head.

Verb

nope (third-person singular simple present nopes, present participle noping, simple past and past participle noped)

  1. (archaic, East Midlands and Northern England) To hit someone on the head.

Anagrams

  • open, peno-, peon, pone

Dutch

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: no‧pe

Verb

nope

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of nopen

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: nope

Interjection

nope

  1. (informal) nope

Anagrams

  • open

French

Alternative forms

  • noppe

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /nɔp/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Dutch noppe (“a fluff of wool, wool tassel”), from Old Dutch *noppo, *hnoppo, from Proto-Germanic *hnuppô (“nap of cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *knew-, *kenw- (“to scratch, scrape, rub”). Cognate with Old English hnoppa (“nap of cloth”). More at nap.

Noun

nope f (plural nopes)

  1. a tuft of wool; a knot in a fabric; nap

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English nope.

Interjection

nope

  1. (informal, neologism) nope

Further reading

  • “nope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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