tippevsTripleConfusable pair

Quick tell: tippe is a verb, Triple is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“tippe” is a verb and “Triple” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#14,952
“tippe” frequency rank
#13,498
“Triple” frequency rank
28450
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tippe Triple
Definition 1. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tippen Gewinn dreier Wettbewerbe einer Sportmannschaft in einer Spielsaison

Letter map: tippe vs Triple

Shared letters muted; letters that set tippe and Triple apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

5 ch
tippe
6 ch
Triple

Part-of-speech tell for tippe / Triple

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: tippe is averb and Tripleanoun. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28450, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tippe is recorded at frequency rank #14,952, classified as averb, pronounced [ˈtɪpə]. Triple is at rank #13,498, tagged as anoun, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 28450, this pair ranks #1,784,546 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of tippe vs Triple

Shared letters: eipt. Private to "tippe": -. Private to "Triple": lr.

"tippe" · 5 letters · shape CVCCV  ·  "Triple" · 6 letters · shape CCVCCV

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tippeitppe · tipe · tipep · tpipe · ttippe
  • Triplertiple · tirple · trilpe · tripel · triplle · tripple · trpile · trriple

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "tippe" for "Triple" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "tippe" is a verb and "Triple" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "tippe" or "Triple" show up more?
"Triple" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #13,498 in our German list, against #14,952 for "tippe". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

What to do next

You've compared "tippe" and "Triple". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tippe" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "Triple" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,784,546 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tippe" and "Triple" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tippe vs tripp". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,784,546 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list