tope
/toʊp/
"tope" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tope” is uncommon English (frequency #74,585 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,585
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To drink excessively; to get drunk.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tope · tope · English
tope · rank #74,585 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,585
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH torii
Nearest frequency peer: torii (+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 “tope”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- tocopherol
tocopherol
25,421 corpus weight
- Tojo
Tojo
25,420 corpus weight
- Toland
Toland
25,418 corpus weight
- tope
tope
25,416 corpus weight
- torii
torii
25,415 corpus weight
- tractable
tractable
25,410 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tope” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tope |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /toʊp/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,585 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tope” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tope is uncommon English at frequency #74,585 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /toʊp/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To drink excessively; to get drunk.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tope, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off). The correct English form is tope, spelled T-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1To drink excessively; to get drunk.
Etymology
Alteration of obsolete top (“to drink”), as in top (off).
This word in other languages
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).