# clip

> English word · Verb · IPA /klɪp/ · frequency rank #4,586

## Definitions
1. To grip tightly.
2. To fasten with a clip.
3. To hug, embrace.
4. To collect signatures, generally with the use of a clipboard.

## Etymology
From Middle English clippen, cleppen, clüppen, from Old English clyppan (“to hug, embrace, cherish, clasp”), from Proto-Germanic *klumpijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *glemb-, *glembʰ- (“lump, clump, clod, clamp”). Cognate with Old Frisian kleppa, klippa (“to hug, embrace”), Middle High German klimpen, klimpfen (“to contract tightly, constrict, squeeze”).

## Easily confused with
- **cp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-cp)
- **cup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-cup)
- **cop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-cop)
- **CPI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-cpi)
- **CSI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-csi)
- **CRI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-cri)
- **CSP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-csp)
- **Cui** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-cui)
- **CLP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-clp)
- **Clo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-clo)
- **club** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-club)
- **crap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-crap)
- **coin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-coin)
- **clue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-clue)
- **crop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-crop)
- **coup** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-coup)
- **comp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-comp)
- **coil** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-coil)
- **crib** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-crib)
- **coop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/clip-vs-coop)

## Common misspellings (6)
`cclip`, `cilp`, `clipp`, `cllip`, `clpi`, `lcip`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/clip