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Is sop a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word sop is a Scrabble US word. The word sop is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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Is sop a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word sop is a Scrabble UK word and has 5 points:

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3 letters words from 'sop'

OPS 5POS 5
SOP 5 

2 letters words from 'sop'

OP 4OS 2
PO 4SO 2

All 3 letters words made out of sop

sop osp spo pso ops pos

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word sop. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in sop.

Definitions and meaning of sop

sop

Alternative forms

  • soppe (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English sop, soppe, sope, from Old English sopa (“sopped bread”), from Proto-Germanic *supô (compare Dutch sop, Old High German sopfa), deverbative of *sūpaną (“to sup”). More at sup; compare soup.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Noun

sop (plural sops)

  1. Something entirely soaked.
  2. A piece of solid food to be soaked in liquid food.
    • He it is to whom I shall give a sop, when I have dipped it.
    • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, Or, A Naturall Historie: In Ten Centuries
      Sops in wine, quantity for quantity, inebriate more than wine itself.
  3. Something given or done to pacify or bribe.
    • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists
      All Nature is […] cur;d with a sop.
    • 1996, Bernard Knox, Introduction to Robert Fagles's translation of The Odyssey:
      The suggested petrification of the ship is a sop to gratify Poseidon and compensate him for a concession--the Phaeacians will not be cut off from the sea.
    • That agreement, with its lofty promises of “one country, two systems,” was a fig leaf, as most knew at the time — a sop to Western consciences guilty for condemning the people of Hong Kong to their ultimate fate as wards of Beijing. What is happening today is exactly what was predicted and exactly what Chinese leaders intended. Our outrage, while appropriate, is also embarrassing.
  4. A weak, easily frightened or ineffectual person; a milksop
  5. (Appalachia) Gravy.
  6. (obsolete) A thing of little or no value.
  7. A piece of turf placed in the road as a target for a throw in road bowling.

Derived terms

  • sippet

Translations

Verb

sop (third-person singular simple present sops, present participle sopping, simple past and past participle sopped)

  1. (transitive) To steep or dip in any liquid.
  2. (intransitive) To soak in, or be soaked; to percolate.

Derived terms

  • sop up

Translations

Anagrams

  • OPS, OPS+, POS, POs, PSO, ops, pos

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch sop, from Old Dutch *sop, from Proto-Germanic *suppą.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sɔp/
  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopje n)

  1. water with soap, usually for washing
  2. the sea in terms of somebody who will sail on it

Derived terms

  • zeepsop

Indonesian

Noun

sop (plural, first-person possessive sopku, second-person possessive sopmu, third-person possessive sopnya)

  1. soup

Irish

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sop m (genitive singular soip, nominative plural soip)

  1. wisp, small bundle (of straw, etc.)
  2. straw bedding; (straw) bed

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

sop (present analytic sopann, future analytic sopfaidh, verbal noun sopadh, past participle soptha)

  1. (transitive) light with straw

Conjugation

Mutation

Further reading

  • "sop" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “sop” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “sop” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Middle English

Noun

sop

  1. small amount of food
    • c. 1370-1390, William Langland, Piers Plowman
      And if he soupeth, eteth but a sop

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

  1. cleaner

West Frisian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

sop n (plural soppen, diminutive sopke)

  1. juice
  2. soup

Derived terms

  • sinesappelsop

Further reading

  • “sop”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

West Uvean

Etymology

From English soap.

Noun

sop

  1. soap

References

  • Claire Moyse-Faurie, Borrowings from Romance languages in Oceanic languages, in Aspects of Language Contact (2008, →ISBN

Source: wiktionary.org
  • without soot.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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