soapy
/ˈsoʊpi/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.75 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Bases dissolve skin oils and have a soapy feel to them."
- "Near-synonym: soaped up"
- "The dishwasher uses hot soapy water to clean the dishes and silverware."
- "His skin was still soapy after the shower."
- "The heightened worlds of darkly comedic satire and soapy high-school romance make it easy enough to roll with unrealistic casting choices—and that goes for stage musicals, too, where some level of artifice is built into the format."
- "This Diana-obsessed series is the very definition of bad writing. Despite the brilliant cast, it’s a crass, soapy dive into the abyss – not least in the atrocious scenes featuring Ghost Diana[.]"
Etymology
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsoʊpi/
- British English: /ˈsəʊpi/