toper
/ˈtəʊpə/
"toper" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“toper” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.
Corpus desk
Index EN-toper · toper · English
toper · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | toper |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtəʊpə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “toper” in English
Rare enough to double-check
toper is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈtəʊpə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.".
No misspelling variants are generated for toper in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tope + -er. The correct English form is toper, spelled T-O-P-E-R.
Definition
- 1Someone who drinks alcoholic beverages a lot; a drunkard.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how toper appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A Toper this! He plied his glass / More strictly than he said the Mass, […]
The liquor soon mounted into their heads, as it generally does even with the arrantest topers newly landed from sea, and they began capering about most obstreperously.
Etymology
From tope + -er.
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.