The confusion between “stoped” and “stopped” is very common, but the rule is simple once you understand it. The correct spelling is always “stopped”, with a double “p.” “Stopped” is the correct spelling, while “stoped” is generally a misspelling in modern English. “Stopped” is the past tense and past participle of stop, meaning to cease moving, doing, or continuing something. They were walking away and suddenly stopped. I stopped dead in my tracks [=stopped suddenly] when I saw the bear. STOPPED meaning: 1. past simple and past participle of stop 2. past simple and past participle of stop. Learn more. to block, obstruct, or close (a passageway, channel, opening, duct, etc.) (usually fol. by up): He stopped up the sink with a paper towel. He stopped the hole in the tire with a patch. Synonyms for STOPPED: prevented, precluded, refused, excluded, rejected, suppressed, blocked, revoked; Antonyms of STOPPED: permitted, permissible, acceptable, allowable, endorsed, authorized, appropriate, approved The correct form is stopped. In English, when a verb ends with a single vowel followed by a single consonant, and the stress is on the final syllable, you double the consonant before adding -ed. Stopped or Stoped – Which is Correct? Stopped is the correct spelling. Stoped is a misspelling and should not be used in standard English. The error usually occurs because writers forget to double the final consonant when adding -ed to the short, one-syllable verb stop. To cease moving, progressing, acting, or operating; come to a halt: The clock stopped in the night. 2. To put an end to what one is doing; cease: had to stop at an exciting place in the book. Meaning of stopped in English stopped past simple and past participle of stop (Definition of stopped from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press).