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“tippt” and “tips” are a confusable German pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.

#25,790
“tippt” frequency rank
#21,448
“tips” frequency rank
47238
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature tippt tips
Definition 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tippen 3. Person Singular Indikativ Präsens Aktiv des Verbs tip

Letter map: tippt vs tips

Shared letters muted; letters that set tippt and tips apart highlighted. Shared run: 3.

5 ch
tippt
4 ch
tips

Corpus notes: tippt and tips

tippt and tips are indexed as a confusable German pair. We have no recorded pronunciation or part of speech for both members, so the spelling overlap is what we can show you: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 47238, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

tippt is recorded at frequency rank #25,790, classified as averb, pronounced [tɪpt]. tips is at rank #21,448, tagged as averb, 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 47238, this pair ranks #1,291,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of tippt vs tips

Shared letters: ipt. Private to "tippt": -. Private to "tips": s.

"tippt" · 5 letters · shape CVCCC  ·  "tips" · 4 letters · shape CVCC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • tipptitppt · tipptt · tipt · tiptp · tpipt · ttippt
  • tipsitps · tipss · tisp · tpis · ttips

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "tippt" and "tips" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No. They differ by 1 letter(s) in length, but the dictionary glosses above give them different meanings, so swapping one for the other changes what the sentence says.
Frequency check: "tippt" vs "tips" - which ranks higher?
"tips" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21,448 in our German list, against #25,790 for "tippt". 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 "tippt" and "tips". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "tippt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "tips" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,291,420 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "tippt" and "tips" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tippt 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 #1,291,420 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