Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Sopping |
SoppingAdjective1. Wet through and through; thoroughly wet; "stood at the door drenched (or soaked) by the rain"; "a shirt saturated with perspiration"; "his shoes were sopping (or soaking)"; "the speaker's sodden collar"; "soppy clothes". Adverb1. Extremely; "dripping wet," "soaking wet". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sopping" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
Synonyms: SoppingSynonyms: drenched (adj), saturated (adj), soaked (adj), sodden (adj), soppy (adj), dripping (adv), soaking (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sopping |
| English words defined with "sopping": drenched ♦ saturated, soaked, soaking, sodden, soppy. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Slurp; slurping; sop; sponge; suck; sup; supping; sucking; sopping; . |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Sopping" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 52.94% of the time. "Sopping" is used about 17 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 52.94% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Adverb (general) | 41.18% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 5.88% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 17 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "sopping": sopping wet. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pantie sopping wet | 3 |
sopping | 3 |
pantie sopping | 3 |
sopping wet | 2 |
pussy sopping wet | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "sopping"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i lagur (awash, dabby, damp, soggy, soppy, wet). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съвсем (all, altogether, clean, clear, completely, directly, dooms, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, real, regularly, simply, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide), крайно (extremely, highly, intolerable, miserably, passing, terribly, to death, ultra-, unco, unmercifully, unusually, utterly), много (almighty, amain, awfully, bally, deep, dozens, ever so, good deal, great deal, greatly, heartily, high, highly, hundreds, immensely, jolly, loads of, lot, lots of, many, mint, much, nice and, only too, passing, plenty, power, quantities, quantity, real, right, sight, simply, sorely, terrifically, thumping, to a large degree, to death, unco, unusually, vastly, very, very many, very much indeed), подгизнал (drenched, oozy, soaked, soaking wet, soppy, waterlogged, water-sick). (various references) | |
Farsi | کاملا (Altogether, Intoto, Outright, Quite, Smack, Sound, Through, Utter, Utterly, Wholly), شدید (Boisterous, Chronic, Diametrical, Drastic, Exquisite, Grievous, Hard, Inclement, Intense, Intensive, Keen, Rigorous, Rugged, Severe, Stalwart, Strenuous, Tough, Vehement, Vigorous, Violent), بسیار (Abundant, All, Damn, Extra, Far, Galore, Lot, Manifold, Many, Much, Multifarious, Plenty, Precious, Somush, Sorely, Very). (various references) | |
German | triefend (dripping). (various references) | |
Greek | βρεγμένοσ (wet), μουσκεμένοσ (sodden, soggy, soppy), πολύ βρεγμένοσ. (various references) | |
Hungarian | átázott (soak, soaked, sodden, soggy, soppy, spongy). (various references) | |
Italian | fradicio (soaked, soaking, soggy, wet, wet through), bagnato (damp, dank, soaked, wet, wetly). (various references) | |
Manx | fliugh-vaiht (soaked, soaking, sopping wet), fliugh ny hrooid (sopping wet, wet through). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oppingsay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | ensopado (dripping, soaked, stew, stewed, washing), encharcado (dripping, madid, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy, soppy, weathered, wet). (various references) | |
Russian | мокрый (madid, sloppy, soggy, sopping wet, soppy, watery, wet), промокший (saturate, soaking wet, sodden). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | skroz mokar (wet throughly), pokisao (dripping, wet). (various references) | |
Spanish | mojado (damp, damped, dampish, moist, slobbery, sloppy, soaked, soaking, sodden, souse, watery, wet), empapado (impregnated, saturated, soaked, sodden, soggy). (various references) | |
Swedish | genomblöt (soaking wet). (various references) | |
Thai | เปียกโชก (soggy). (various references) | |
Turkish | sırılsıklam (dripping, head over heels, like a drowned rat, soaking wet, sodden, sopping wet, soppy, wet through, wringing, wringing wet). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | мкрий, просочений. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sũng nước, ướt sũng. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Sopping" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: opping, seppings, souping, wopping. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sopping" (pronounced sÄ"ping) |
| 4 | -Ä" p i ng | chopping, copping, cropping, dropping, flopping, hopping, lopping, mopping, popping, propping, shopping, stopping, swapping, topping, Wapping, whopping. |
| 3 | -p i ng | antidumping, aping, backslapping, beeping, bleeping, bookkeeping, bumping, burping, camping, capping, carping, Chipping, chirping, chomping, clamping, clapping, clipping, clumping, coping, cramping, creeping, crimping, damping, developing, dipping, draping, dripping, drooping, dumping, eavesdropping, enveloping, equipping, escaping, flapping, flipping, galloping, gaping, gasping, gossiping, grasping, griping, gripping, groping, grouping, gulping, handicapping, harping, heaping, helping, hoping, housekeeping, hyping, jumping, keeping, kidnaping, kidnapping, lamping, landscaping, lapping, leaping, limping, lumping, mapping, moping, napping, nipping, outstripping, overlapping, overstepping, peacekeeping, peeping, pimping, piping, prepping, pulping, pumping, ramping, raping, rapping, reaping, recapping, recouping, regrouping, reshaping, revamping, ripping, romping, roping, safekeeping, sapping, scalping, scooping, scoping, scraping, scrapping, scrimping, seeping, shaping, shipping, sidestepping, sipping, skimping, skipping, slapping, sleeping, slipping, sloping, slumping, snapping, sniping, snooping, stamping, stepping, stereotyping, stomping, stooping, strapping, stripping, stumping, swamping, sweeping, swiping, swooping, tamping, taping, tapping, thumping, tipping, tramping, trapping, tripping, trooping, typing, unwrapping, upping, usurping, videotaping, walloping, warping, weeping, whipping, whooping, wiping, Wiretapping, worshipping, wrapping, zapping, zipping. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-i-n-o-p-p-s" | |
-1 letter: gipons, pingos, posing. | |
-2 letters: gipon, oping, opsin, pingo, pings, pions, pongs. | |
-3 letters: gins, gips, ions, nips, nogs, pigs, ping, pins, pion, pips, piso, pois, pong, pons, pops, sign, sing, snip, snog, song, spin. | |
-4 letters: gin, gip, gos, ins, ion, nip, nog, nos, ons, ops, pig, pin, pip, pis, poi, pop, psi, sin, sip, son. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-i-n-o-p-p-s" | |
+1 letter: apposing, hoppings, opposing, pogonips, shopping, slopping, stopping, swopping, toppings. | |
+2 letters: droppings, estopping, proposing, purposing, shoppings, stoppling, stropping, supposing. | |
+3 letters: gossipping, oppressing, pepsinogen, postponing, prolapsing, prospering, reopposing, stoppering, supporting, unstopping. | |
+4 letters: dispeopling, misstopping, oversupping, pepsinogens, prophesying, prospecting, superposing, worshipping. | |
+5 letters: backstopping, disapproving, outcroppings, outstripping, overslipping, overstepping, popularising, predisposing, presupposing, propagandist, propagations, showstopping, unstoppering. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Sounds 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
