Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sloping

/ˈsloʊpɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English

Syllables: slop-ing
IPA: /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a slope.

verb

present participle and gerund of slope

verb

in a sloping manner

noun

An arrangement or motion by which something slopes.

Example Sentences

"a sloping roof"
"The beefarm on her sloping meadows, the sweet / Exacting spaces spinning honey; / Under the elms and the sycamores / The light leaves cherish many flowers, / The light air under the boughs threaded / With the vivid bees who return"
"the road cut through the fields sloping"

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/
British English: /ˈsləʊpɪŋ/

Inflected Forms

more sloping (comparative) most sloping (superlative) slopings (plural)

Derived Forms

downsloping nonsloping slopingly slopingness unsloping upsloping

Synonyms

declivitous gradient aslant aslope diagonal slanted slanting sloped

Rhymes With

hoping coping groping scoping roping moping

Questions

How do you pronounce sloping?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈsloʊpɪŋ/.
What does sloping mean?: Having a slope.

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