tops

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The English entry for tops is 4 letters long, classified as anadv, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /tɒps/. Corpus data places it at rank #6,425 in overall English word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "At the very most; as a maximum.".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for tops, with forms such as "otps", "topps", and "topss". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TS", "tp", "toy", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Etymologically, the entry records: Likely top + -s (diminutive). Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is tops, spelled T-O-P-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.