Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sopping

/sˈɑpɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.09 in modern English

Syllables: sop-ping
IPA: /sˈɑpɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

verb

present participle and gerund of sop

noun

Example Sentences

"The grass was wet and the earth smelled of springtime. Fern's sneakers were sopping by the time she caught up with her father."
"A swirling, sopping, doomladen midmorning, take my word for it, and myself, as I say, an unborn ghost, not ordered, not delivered and certainly not paid for: myself a deaf microphone, planted but inactive in any but the biological meaning."
"There were hot miseries and cold miseries; saline unpleasantries, partial wettings and complete soppings; […]"

Inflected Forms

more sopping (comparative) most sopping (superlative) soppings (plural)

Derived Forms

soppingly

Phrases

sopping wet

Synonyms

soaking dripping

Rhymes With

shopping dropping stopping popping topping hopping chopping swapping whopping cropping flopping propping

Questions

How do you pronounce sopping?: The recorded pronunciation is /sˈɑpɪŋ/.
What does sopping mean?: Soaked, drenched, completely wet to the point of dripping.

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