top-heavy with drink
"top-heavy-with-drink" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“top-heavy with drink” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 2, 2026) - drunk
Corpus desk
Index EN-top-heavy-with-drink · top-heavy with drink · English
top-heavy with drink · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 20 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | top-heavy with drink |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “top-heavy with drink” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
top-heavy with drink is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "drunk".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for top-heavy with drink, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: US, late 19th century. Due to staggering walk when drunk; compare brick in one's hat. The correct English form is top-heavy with drink, spelled T-O-P---H-E-A-V-Y- -W-I-T-H- -D-R-I-N-K.
Definition
- 1drunk
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how top-heavy with drink appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
To have a brick in one’s hat, verb. phr. (American).—To be top-heavy with drink. For synonyms, see Drinks and Screwed.
Imagine yourself about to embark on the New York Limited Express for the eastern metropolis; the train made up of ten Pullman passenger, two baggage and one express cars; with an engineer top-heavy with drink, a conductor braced up to a degree of conviviality, the train-dispatchers along the line overworked and sleepy.
Etymology
US, late 19th century. Due to staggering walk when drunk; compare brick in one's hat.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.