acop means atop. It carries an Arena rating of 1527, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, acop ranks #2,103 of 17,143 for Best Fossil-Poetry Words, #3,107 of 17,140 for Most Whimsical Words, #3,298 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #3,849 of 17,127 for Most Vivid Words.
acop is pronounced /əˈkɒp/.
Why “acop” is a great word
Placed specifically on the uppermost point or surface of something. From the prefix a- ("on, at") + cop ("crown of the head"), first attested in 1612 in the writing of Ben Jonson. Unlike "atop," a general term of placement, or "above," a broad relational height, "acop" is an archaic, tactile specificity, evoking the precise fit of a cap upon the crown. It is the solitary stone balanced on a cairn, the finial just seated on a spire, the final drop of rain trembling acop a bare twig—a small, perfect consummation of contact before the inevitable fall.
Etymology
From a- + cop (“crown of the head”).
adv
- atope.g.“Marry she's not in fashion yet; she wears a hood, but it stands acop.” — 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet
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