sop

1. 1.

   piece of solid food for dipping in a liquid

   Synonymssops

   Broadermorsel
2. 2.

   a concession given to mollify or placate

   “the offer was a sop to my feelings”

   Broaderconcession
3. 3.

   a prescribed procedure to be followed routinely

   “rote memorization has been the educator's standard operating procedure for centuries”

   Synonymsstanding operating procedurestandard operating procedurestandard procedure

   Broaderoperating procedure

   Narrowerlockstep

Other forms of sop

plural

sops·

past tense or participle

sopped

present participle

sopping

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 sop

What does sop mean?

sop means "give a conciliatory gift or bribe to". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sop?

sop has 1 syllable: sop. In IPA it is /ˈsɑp/.

What is another word for sop?

Close synonyms include soak through, drench, douse, dowse, soak. 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 sop a common word?

sop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sop?

1 word rhymes with sop. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.