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say it: HAHP-skahch
hopscotch is a noun meaning "a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone". It is pronounced /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/ — HAHP-skahch. It carries one recorded sense.
a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hopscotch come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.