tippy
/ˈtɪpi/
"tippy" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tippy” is uncommon English (frequency #53,914 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,914
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fashionable, tip-top.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tippy · tippy · English
tippy · rank #53,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,914
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tingly
Nearest frequency peer: tingly (-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 “tippy”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- timbered
timbered
46,090 corpus weight
- tingly
tingly
46,088 corpus weight
- tippy
tippy
46,087 corpus weight
- tix
tix
46,086 corpus weight
- touchpad
touchpad
46,084 corpus weight
- Trajan
Trajan
46,083 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tippy” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tippy |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /ˈtɪpi/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #53,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tippy” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tippy is uncommon English at frequency #53,914 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed /ˈtɪpi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tippy, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: 1790, tip (“apex”) + -y (diminutive). Sense of “clever” may be influenced by tip (“inside information”). The correct English form is tippy, spelled T-I-P-P-Y.
Definition
- 1Fashionable, tip-top.
- 2Clever, neat, smart.
- 3Of tea, having a large amount of tips, or leaf buds.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tippy appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Of all the gay beaux, / That sport their smart cloathes, / There's none that my fancy can please, / With their Spencers or Crops, / Or woolly Foretops, / Like Bob with his Tippy Bootees.
She read Renan's Vie de Jésus, and I am now going to lend her the antidote—a tippy little bit of criticism by Pressensé.
Etymology
1790, tip (“apex”) + -y (diminutive). Sense of “clever” may be influenced by tip (“inside information”).
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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