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tips

/tɪps/noun, verb

tips is spelled T-I-P-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tips means “tag (a popular children's chasing game)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tips?

Letters4: T-I-P-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing38 times per million words; the 2,581st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 tips?

Tips appears 38 times per million words in written English, the 2,581st 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 tips?

  • /tɪps/

Tips has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-tips.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tips?

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

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

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).

What does tips mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of tip (a form of tip)

  2. 2

    Australiatag (a popular children's chasing game)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of tip (a form of tip)

noun

as TIPS
  1. 1

    Abbreviation of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.

noun

as TIPs
  1. 1

    plural of TIP (a form of TIP)

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

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