tip
\tip\
The verdict
“tip” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #25,150) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #25,150
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pourboire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tip · tip · French
tip · rank #25,150 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,150
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tease
Nearest frequency peer: tease (-1 rank slots)
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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « tip »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- target
target
74,854 corpus weight
- tartine
tartine
74,853 corpus weight
- tease
tease
74,852 corpus weight
- tip
tip
74,851 corpus weight
- tjrs
tjrs
74,850 corpus weight
- tong
tong
74,849 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « tip » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tip |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tip\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #25,150 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « tip »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tip is neighbouring look-alikes ("tu", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \tip\. Frequency #25,150 among 3,703 “T” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
No misspelling variants are generated for tip in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "tu", "TV", "Tl", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tip, spelled T-I-P.
Definition
- 1Pourboire.
- 2Tuyau, conseil, avis, petite information utile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tip appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A l’hôtel, à la sortie du taxi, au bar ou au restaurant, les tips (pourboires) sont de mise aux Etats-Unis.
Mes tips pour multiplier par 3 l'efficacité de votre prospection
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tip", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).