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Is wop a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wop is a Scrabble US word. The word wop is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

W4O1P3

Is wop a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wop is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

W4O1P3

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Yes. The word wop is a Words With Friends word. The word wop is worth 9 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

W4O1P4

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3-letter words (2 found)

POW,WOP,

2-letter words (4 found)

OP,OW,PO,WO,

You can make 6 words from wop according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 3 letters words made out of wop

wop owp wpo pwo opw pow

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Definitions and meaning of wop

wop

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Neapolitan guappo (“dude, stud”), a greeting borrowed from Spanish guapo (“bold, handsome”). Contrary to popular belief, the term isn't an acronym of without passport or working off passage, which are backronyms delivered from the term.

Noun

wop (plural wops)

  1. (UK, US, Australia, slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) A person of Italian descent.
Synonyms
  • (person of Italian descent): dago, Eyetie, goombah, greaseball, guido, guinea, pizzahead, wog
Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

wop (third-person singular simple present wops, present participle wopping, simple past and past participle wopped)

  1. Alternative form of whop (“to hit or strike”)

See also

Anagrams

  • POW, PoW, pow

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • weop, wope

Etymology

Inherited from Old English wōp, from Proto-West Germanic *wōp, from Proto-Germanic *wōpaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /woːp/

Noun

wop (plural wopes)

  1. Lamentation, crying, or weeping.

Descendants

  • English: woop, whoop

References

  • “wọ̄p(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wōpaz (“clamour, weeping”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /woːp/

Noun

wōp m (nominative plural wōpas)

  1. weeping, lamentation

Declension

Descendants

  • Middle English: wop, weop, wope
    • English: woop, whoop

Verb

wōp

  1. first/third-person singular past indicative of wēpan

Torricelli

Noun

wop

  1. water

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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