# tipper

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtɪpɚ/ · frequency rank #45,704

## Definitions
1. Someone who tips; someone who gives a gratuity.
2. A small moustache.
3. A goods vehicle with a tippable body, used for carrying loose materials such as gravel or rubble; a tipper truck, tipper lorry, or dump truck.
4. A device for loading goods such as coal by tipping them.
5. One who gives private hints about racing or financial speculation, etc.; a tipster.
6. A cutting tool used to cut off or trim the horns of livestock; a horn tipper.
7. A person who tips or discharges a load, or dumps waste (especially illegally with the latter).

## Etymology
From tip + -er.

## Easily confused with
- **topper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tipper-vs-topper)
- **tripped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tipper-vs-tripped)
- **trapper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tipper-vs-trapper)
- **tier** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tier-vs-tipper)
- **tiger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tiger-vs-tipper)
- **timer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timer-vs-tipper)
- **taper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/taper-vs-tipper)
- **Tiber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tiber-vs-tipper)
- **timber** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/timber-vs-tipper)
- **temper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/temper-vs-tipper)
- **tapped** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tapped-vs-tipper)
- **tinder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tinder-vs-tipper)
- **tinker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tinker-vs-tipper)
- **ticker** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ticker-vs-tipper)
- **tiller** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tiller-vs-tipper)
- **tamper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tamper-vs-tipper)
- **tapper** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tapper-vs-tipper)
- **Tigger** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tigger-vs-tipper)

## Common misspellings (7)
`itpper`, `tipepr`, `tiper`, `tipperr`, `tippre`, `tpiper`, `ttipper`

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