Home/sloppy

UnscrambleHQ Dictionary

sloppy

/ˈslɒpi/•adjective

Sloppy is also used as adjective, with meanings including lacking neatness or order.

6 meanings6 lettersScrabble 13

Length

Scrabble

WWF

Starts

Ends

PPY

Difficulty

Medium

Dictionary

What Does “SLOPPY” Mean?

/ˈslɒpi/

sloppy has 6 documented senses across adjective.

Adjective

6 senses

lacking neatness or order

“a sloppy room”

“sloppy habits”

wet or smeared with a spilled liquid or moist material

“a sloppy floor”

“a sloppy saucer”

(of soil) soft and watery

“the ground was boggy under foot”

“a marshy coastline”

“miry roads”

“wet mucky lowland”

Synonyms

boggy marshy miry mucky muddy quaggy sloughy soggy squashy swampy waterlogged

not fitting closely; hanging loosely

“baggy trousers”

“a loose-fitting blouse is comfortable in hot weather”

Synonyms

baggy

excessively or abnormally emotional

Synonyms

overemotional

marked by great carelessness

“a most haphazard system of record keeping”

“slapdash work”

“slipshod spelling”

“sloppy workmanship”

Synonyms

haphazard slapdash slipshod

Word Forms

sloppier sloppiest

Synonyms for SLOPPY

boggy marshy miry mucky muddy quaggy sloughy soggy squashy swampy waterlogged baggy

Scrabble Score

Letters

Vowels

Consonants

Word Intelligence

Explore the word sloppy with its definition, score, letter pattern, and useful word game details.

Definition

lacking neatness or order

Length

6 letters

Starts With

Ends With

Vowels

Consonants

Letters

S, L, O, P, P, Y

Use Case

Useful for Scrabble, Wordle, crosswords, anagrams, and other word games.

Letter Breakdown

Word Facts

Key letter, score, and pattern facts for sloppy.

SLOPPY is a 6-letter word.

It has a Scrabble score of 13.

It starts with S and ends with Y.

It contains 1 vowel and 5 consonants.

Its vowel share is about 17%.

It has 1 repeated letter.

It is not a palindrome.

Letter pattern: ABCDDE.

Vowel/consonant pattern: CCVCCC.

Word Strategy

Strategy notes for using sloppy in Scrabble, Wordle-style games, crosswords, and anagram solving.

Scrabble Strategy

★★★★☆

SLOPPY has a Scrabble score of 13. It is useful for balancing a rack and building steady board position.

Wordle Strategy

★★☆☆☆

SLOPPY is not five letters, so it is not a standard Wordle answer, but its letter pattern can still help with word analysis.

Crossword Strategy

★★★★☆

SLOPPY can be useful in crossword solving because it has a clear starting letter, ending letter, and 6-letter structure.

Anagram Strategy

★★★☆☆

SLOPPY contains repeated letters, which can make anagram solving more constrained but also easier to pattern-match.

Letter Intelligence

A deeper look at the letter structure, patterns, and useful game signals inside sloppy.

Unique Letters

Repeated Letters

Highest Value Letter

Letter Pattern

ABCDDE

CV Pattern

CCVCCC

Vowel Share

17%

Consonant Share

83%

Bigrams

SL, LO, OP, PP, PY

Trigrams

SLO, LOP, OPP, PPY

Crossword Intelligence

Crossword-style clues, crossing help, and pattern notes for sloppy.

SLOPPY is a 6-letter standard crossword entry.

It starts with S and ends with Y, which helps narrow crossword crossings.

It contains 1 vowel and 5 consonants.

Its vowel/consonant pattern is CCVCCC.

Crossword difficulty estimate: Medium.