tiptoes
"tiptoes" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tiptoes” is uncommon English (frequency #73,724 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,724
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The tips of the toes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tiptoes · tiptoes · English
tiptoes · rank #73,724 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,724
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH TMD
Nearest frequency peer: TMD (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tiptoes”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Tico
Tico
26,282 corpus weight
- tilled
tilled
26,281 corpus weight
- tiptoes
tiptoes
26,277 corpus weight
- TMD
TMD
26,276 corpus weight
- Torry
Torry
26,275 corpus weight
- toupee
toupee
26,272 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tiptoes” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tiptoes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,724 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tiptoes” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
tiptoes is uncommon English at frequency #73,724 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The tips of the toes.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for tiptoes, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 tiptoes, spelled T-I-P-T-O-E-S.
Definition
- 1The tips of the toes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tiptoes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
She stood on her tiptoes to appear taller.
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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