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— English words —

• hoop n. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
• hoop n. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
• hoop n. A circular band of metal, wood, or similar material used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
• hoop n. (Now chiefly historical) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic…
• hoop n. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents…
• hoop n. (UK, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
• hoop n. (Basketball) The rim part of a basketball net.
• hoop n. (US, in the plural, metonymically) The game of basketball.
• hoop n. A hoop earring.
• hoop n. (Sports, usually in the plural) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
• hoop n. (Australia, metonymically, slang, by extension) A jockey.
• hoop n. (Figurative, usually in the plural) An obstacle that must be overcome in order to proceed.
• hoop v. (Transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
• hoop v. (Transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
• hoop n. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
• hoop n. The hoopoe.
• hoop v. (Dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
• hoop v. (Dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.
• Hoop n. (Soccer) someone connected with Queens Park Rangers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Afrikaans
  • hoop n. Heap.
  • hoop v. To hope.
• Afrikaans - West frisian
  • hoop n. Hope.
• Middle dutch
  • hoop n. Heap, pile.
  • hoop n. Group of people or animals, troop, herd.
  • hoop n. Meeting.

— English words, defined in French —

• hoop n. Cerceau.
• hoop n. Panier de basket.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• hoop s. Aro.
• hoop s. La canasta del basquetbal.
• hoop s. Argolla.

— English word, defined in Italian —

• hoop s. Cerchio.

— In Dutch —

• hoop n. Stapel.
• hoop n. Een grote hoeveelheid.
• hoop n. Een verwachting van iets wenselijks.
• hoop w. Eerste persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van hopen.
• hoop w. Gebiedende wijs van hopen.
• hoop w. (Bij inversie) tweede persoon enkelvoud tegenwoordige tijd van hopen.

130 English words from 25 English definitions

Also animals anything A␣ring as␣in Australia awning band barrel basketball because bind bound by␣extension by␣way␣of call called capacity chiefly circle circles circular clasp Club coach combination connected contents cough cry Dated earring elastic encircle estimated etc extension fan fasten Figurative Football for forming four framework from game Group Heap herd historical hoop hoop␣earring hoopoe hoops hope horizontal imitative in␣order in␣order␣to jersey jockey like loud material measure Meeting metal metonymically must net Now obsolete obstacle of␣a old one on␣the order originally other overcome Park part pecks people pile player plural portion pot proceed pursuit quart Queens Rangers resembling rim ring shout similar slang Soccer someone sound Sports stripe such such␣as surround tent that the thin Transitive troop used used␣to using usually utter variously way whalebone whoop whooping whooping␣cough with wood word

9 English words from 12 foreign definitions

Aro basket canasta del Een grote Panier Stapel van

20 foreign words from 12 foreign definitions

Argolla Bij Cerceau Cerchio Eerste Eerste␣persoon enkelvoud Gebiedende Gebiedende␣wijs hoeveelheid hopen iets inversie persoon tegenwoordige␣tijd tijd tweede tweede␣persoon verwachting wijs

48 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

hoops Hoops hoopy hooped hooper Hooper Hoopes hoopla Hoople hoopoe hoopoo hoopty hoopers hoop␣hoe hooping hooplas hoopoes hoopoos hooptee hooptie hooperon Hoopeses hoop␣hoes hoopless hooplike hoop␣pine hoopster hooptees hoopties hooperons hoop␣pines hoopskirt hoop␣skirt hoop␣snake hoopsters hoop␣cheese hoopskirts hoop␣skirts hoop␣snakes Hoopa␣Valley hoop␣cheeses hoop␣earring hoop␣earrings Hoopingarner hooping-cough hooping␣cough Hoopingarners hooping␣coughs

125 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

choops dhoops shoops Shoops whoops inhoops rehoops unhoops whooped whoopee whooper whoopie whoopin' whoopla whoopsy inhooped rehooped Shoopman unhooped whoop-ass whoop␣ass whoopeed whoopees whoopers whooping whooplas whoopsie whoopy-do whoopy␣do hula␣hoops inhooping nanohoops rehooping roll␣hoops Shoopmans unhooping war␣whoops whoo-hoops whoop-de-do whoop␣de␣do whoopee-do whoopee␣do whoopings whoop␣it␣up whooplike whoopsies whoopy-doo whoopy␣doo whoopy-dos hula␣hooped +75 words

22 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

dhoop shoop Shoop whoop inhoop rehoop unhoop big␣whoop hula␣hoop nanohoop roll␣hoop war␣whoop whoo-hoop cockahoop cock-a-hoop no␣big␣whoop whoop-whoop azananohoop gathering␣hoop basketball␣hoop embroidery␣hoop millennial␣whoop

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

hoo Hoo oop OOP

8 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

ooh OOH poo Poo POO -poo pooh Pooh

4 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

ooph phoo pooh Pooh

26 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

dhoop hoops Hoops hoopy hoplo hoplo- hop␣on hoppo Hoppo hospo lopho- oomph ophio- phono phono- photo photo- pocho pooch poogh poohs posho shoop Shoop top␣ho whoop

23 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

hoo Hoo hop Hop oho OHP ooh OOH oop OOP opo Opo pho Pho PHO phở poh pOH POH poo Poo POO -poo

40 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

boop Boop coop Coop coöp co-op Co-op Coop. doop goop holp hood Hood 'hood -hood hoof hook Hook hool hoon Hoon hoot Hoot Hopp hosp Hosp. Houp howp Koop loop Loop no-op poop roop soop Toop voop woop yoop zoop

6 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

hoo Hoo hop Hop oop OOP

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