sippy
"sippy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sippy” is uncommon English (frequency #53,855 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,855
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A little sip; less than a serving of some particular drink
Corpus desk
Index EN-sippy · sippy · English
sippy · rank #53,855 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,855
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Shukla
Nearest frequency peer: Shukla (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sippy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Shipp
Shipp
46,150 corpus weight
- Shukla
Shukla
46,147 corpus weight
- sippy
sippy
46,146 corpus weight
- skidding
skidding
46,144 corpus weight
- slandering
slandering
46,143 corpus weight
- smooch
smooch
46,141 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sippy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sippy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,855 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sippy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sippy is uncommon English at frequency #53,855 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A little sip; less than a serving of some particular drink".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for sippy, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sip + -y. The correct English form is sippy, spelled S-I-P-P-Y.
Definition
- 1A little sip; less than a serving of some particular drink
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how sippy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Would you like a little water, Sue? SUE. Well, perhaps a sippy. (SUE squirts some water into a paper cup.)
By going to the canteen as soon as it opened some people hoped to cadge money, or one or more cans, or at least a 'sippy'.
Etymology
From sip + -y.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).