# tip

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɪp/ · frequency rank #2,767

## Definitions
1. The extreme end of something, especially when pointed; e.g. the sharp end of a pencil.
2. A piece of metal, fabric or other material used to cover the top of something for protection, utility or decoration.
3. The end of a bow of a stringed instrument that is not held.
4. A small piece of meat.
5. A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
6. A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
7. Synonym of eartip (“part of earbuds”).
8. the glans penis

## Etymology
From Middle English tip, typ, tippe (“tip”), related to Saterland Frisian Tip (“tip”), West Frisian tippe, tip (“tip”), Dutch tip (“tip”), German Low German Tip, Tippel (“tip”), dialectal German Zipf (“tip”) (diminutive Zipfel used in Standard German), Danish tip (“tip”), Swedish tipp (“tip”), Icelandic typpi (“knob, pin, penis”). Compare also Saterland Frisian Timpe (“tip”), West Frisian timpe (“tip”), Old English tæppa (“tap, spigot”), Albanian thep (“tip, point”), Middle High German züpfel (“pointed end, tip”).

## Easily confused with
- **to** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-to)
- **TV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tv)
- **TL** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tl)
- **TX** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tx)
- **Tu** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tu)
- **Ty** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-ty)
- **TN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tn)
- **TS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-ts)
- **TM** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tm)
- **TT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tt)
- **TJ** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tj)
- **tp** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tp)
- **TK** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tk)
- **two** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-two)
- **too** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-too)
- **top** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-top)
- **try** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-try)
- **tom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-tom)
- **toy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-toy)
- **ton** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tip-vs-ton)

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