/mɑp/
nounverb

Is MOP a Scrabble word?

Yes. MOP is a valid Scrabble word in both tournament lists, NWL2023 and Collins, and in ENABLE. It scores 7 points in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends.

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Meaning An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

Noun 4 meanings

  1. An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

  2. A wash with a mop; the act of mopping.

    “He gave the floor a quick mop to soak up the spilt juice.”

  3. A dense head of hair.

    “He ran a comb through his mop and hurried out the door.”

  4. A squeezable high-flow paint marker with an extra-wide felt or foam tip.

Verb 2 meanings

  1. To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop.

    “to mop (or scrub) a floor”

  2. To make a wry expression with the mouth.

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

Where it comes from

Etymology

From Middle English mappe (also as mappel), perhaps borrowed from Walloon mappe (“napkin”), from Latin mappa (“napkin, cloth”). Believed to be from a Semitic source, variously claimed as Phoenician or Punic (the latter by Quintilian).

MOP at a glance

MOP has 3 letters and scores 7 points in Scrabble (M 3 + O 1 + P 3) and 9 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #17,091 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins (older SOWPODS edition).

Words ending in -MOP

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

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