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/lɑp/
verbnoun

Is LOP a Scrabble word?

Yes. LOP is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 5 points in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends.

NWL Collins ENABLE

Meaning To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

Verb 3 meanings

  1. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.

  2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

  3. To allow to hang down.

    “to lop the head”

Noun 3 meanings

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

  2. A flea.

    “Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.”

  3. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

Definitions adapted from Wiktionary: lop via Kaikki/Wiktextract, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Where it comes from

Etymology

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

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LOP at a glance

LOP has 3 letters and scores 5 points in Scrabble (L 1 + O 1 + P 3) and 7 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #40,233 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).

Words ending in -LOP

More endings

Same last three letters as LOP. This is a spelling match, so not every word here rhymes.

  • DEVELOP13
  • FLOP9
  • GALLOP9
  • SCALLOP11
  • SLOP6
  • DOLLOP9
  • WALLOP11
  • PLOP8
  • REDEVELOP15
  • ENVELOP12
  • CLOP8
  • SALOP7

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