hoops

Other forms of hoops

plural

hoopses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoops

What does hoops mean?

hoops means "a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop".

How many syllables are in hoops?

hoops has 1 syllable: hoops. In IPA it is /ˈhups/.

What is another word for hoops?

Close synonyms include basketball, basketball game. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoops a common word?

hoops is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.