tipoff
"tipoff" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tipoff” is uncommon English (frequency #83,823 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,823
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative spelling of tip-off.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tipoff · tipoff · English
tipoff · rank #83,823 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,823
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH timespan
Nearest frequency peer: timespan (-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 “tipoff”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- timespan
timespan
16,179 corpus weight
- tipoff
tipoff
16,178 corpus weight
- toller
toller
16,176 corpus weight
- Tomasi
Tomasi
16,175 corpus weight
- TOPIX
TOPIX
16,174 corpus weight
- torte
torte
16,173 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tipoff” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tipoff |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,823 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tipoff” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tipoff is uncommon English at frequency #83,823 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative spelling of tip-off.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tipoff, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is tipoff, spelled T-I-P-O-F-F.
Definition
- 1Alternative spelling of tip-off.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tipoff appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Around 8:30 p.m., a young man went to the front of the dining room and knelt to propose marriage to a server. The awkward, staged moment was a tipoff for many guests.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).