tipple

Other forms of tipple

plural

tipples·

past tense

tippled·

present participle

tippling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tipple

What does tipple mean?

tipple means "a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tipple?

tipple has 2 syllables: tip-ple. The stress falls on "tip". In IPA it is /ˈtɪpəl/.

What is another word for tipple?

Close synonyms include draft, draught, potation, bib. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tipple a common word?

tipple is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.