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stip

/stɪp/verb, noun

stip is spelled S-T-I-P: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, stip means “To stipulate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stip?

Letters4: S-T-I-P
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 110,368th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is stip?

Stip appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 110,368th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce stip?

  • /stɪp/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stip.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with stip?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stip.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: tips, spit.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of stip

  • stips present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • stipping participle, present
  • stipped participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stip mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo stipulate.

    The attorneys agreed to stip to a stay of proceedings.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA stipulation.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does stip come from?

Shortening.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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