Rope in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Rope

You can make 19 words from 'rope' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 4 letters words from 'rope'
• 3 letters words from 'rope'
• 2 letters words from 'rope'

4 letters words from 'rope'

PORE 6	REPO 6
ROPE 6

3 letters words from 'rope'

OPE 5	ORE 3
PER 5	PRE 5
PRO 5	REO 3
REP 5	ROE 3

2 letters words from 'rope'

ER 2	OE 2
OP 4	OR 2
PE 4	PO 4
RE 2

Definitions and meaning of rope

rope

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: rōp, IPA^(key): /ɹəʊp/
• (US) enPR: rōp, IPA^(key): /ɹoʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp

Etymology 1

From Middle English rop, rope, from Old English rāp (“rope, cord, cable”), from Proto-West Germanic *raip, from Proto-Germanic *raipaz, *raipą (“rope, cord, band, ringlet”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁roypnós (“strap, band, rope”), from *h₁reyp- (“to peel off, tear; border, edge, strip”).

Alternative forms

• roap, roape (all obsolete)

Noun

rope (countable and uncountable, plural ropes)

1. (uncountable) Thick strings, yarn, monofilaments, metal wires, or strands of other cordage that are twisted together to form a stronger line.

   Synonyms: twine, line, cord; see also Thesaurus:string

2. (countable) An individual length of such material.

3. A cohesive strand of something.
   1. (slang, vulgar) A shot of semen that a man releases during ejaculation.
4. (dated) A continuous stream.
5. (baseball) A hard line drive.

6. (ceramics) A long thin segment of soft clay, either extruded or formed by hand.
7. (computer science) A data structure resembling a string, using a concatenation tree in which each leaf represents a character.
8. (military, uncountable) A kind of chaff (material dropped to interfere with radar) consisting of foil strips with paper chutes attached.
9. (Jainism) A unit of distance equivalent to the distance covered in six months by a god flying at ten million miles per second.

   Synonyms: rajju, infinitude
10. (jewelry) A necklace of at least 1 meter in length.
11. (nautical) Cordage of at least 1 inch in diameter, or a length of such cordage.
12. (archaic) A unit of length equal to 20 feet.
13. (slang) Rohypnol.
14. (with "the") Death by hanging.

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Irish: rópa
• Tok Pisin: rop

Translations

Further reading

• Rope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rope (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English ropen, rope (“to form ropes”), from rop (“rope”); see above.

Verb

rope (third-person singular simple present ropes, present participle roping, simple past and past participle roped)

1. (transitive) To tie (something) with rope.

   The robber roped the victims.

2. (transitive) To throw a rope (or something similar, e.g. a lasso, cable, wire, etc.) around (something).

   The cowboy roped the calf.

3. (intransitive) To climb by means of a rope or ropes.
   • 1984, G. F. Dutton, The Ridiculous Mountains (page 153)

     We roped down to the platform selected for the bivouac; set up our bags and brewed a reasonable meal.

4. (intransitive) To be formed into rope; to draw out or extend into a filament or thread.
5. (incel slang, intransitive) To commit suicide, particularly by hanging.
   • 2019, anonymous, quoted in Julia Rose DeCook, "Curating the Future: The Sustainability Practices of Online Hate Groups", dissertation submitted to Michigan State University, page 153:

     In figure 71, the poster Brahcel notes that he “almost roped” because he could not find the community […]

   • 2020, Joshua A. Segalewitz, "'You Don't Understand... It's Not About Virginity': Sexual Markets, Identity Construction, and Violent Masculinity on an Incel Forum Board", thesis submitted to the University of Dayton, page 36:

     ToxicAlcoholSyndrome explains that his, “dreams are all really depressing and vivid, so… I’m constantly in a bad mood and know in the back of my brain, I need to rope.”

   • 2021, Laura Bates, From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All, unnumbered page:

     Another man wrote that the only reason he hasn't “roped” (incel terminology for death by suicide) is he didn't want to ruin his family's Christmas.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:rope.

   My life is a mess; I might as well rope.

Synonyms

• (tie with rope): tie, bind, secure
• (throw a rope around): lasso

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Middle English rop (“gut, intestine”), from Old English rop, ropp; compare Middle Dutch rop, roppe (“fish guts”).

The modern pronunciation results from phonological assimilation to Etymology 1.

Alternative forms

• rop, rap (dialectal)

Noun

rope (plural ropes)

1. (in the plural) The small intestines.

Anagrams

• Pero, oper, pore, reop, repo

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Finnish

Noun

rope

1. (gaming, slang) Abbreviation of roolipeli (“RPG (role-playing game)”).

Anagrams

• Repo, pore, repo

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

rope

1. Alternative form of rop (“rope”)

Etymology 2

Verb

rope

1. Alternative form of ropen (“to form ropes”)

Etymology 3

Verb

rope

1. Alternative form of ropen (“to cry out”)

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hrópa, from Proto-Germanic *hrōpaną.

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense roper, simple past ropte, past participle ropt)

1. to shout

Derived terms

• utrope

References

• “rope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

rope (imperative rop, present tense ropar or roper, simple past ropa or ropte, past participle ropa or ropt, present participle ropande)

1. Alternative form of ropa

Source: wiktionary.org

• that can be roped.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)