tiptoe

1. 1.

   walking on the tips of ones's toes so as to make no noise

   “moving with tiptoe steps”

   Similarquiet

1. 1.

   on tiptoe or as if on tiptoe

   “standing tiptoe”

Other forms of tiptoe

plural

tiptoes·

past tense

tiptoed·

present participle

tiptoing·

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 tiptoe

What does tiptoe mean?

tiptoe means "the tip of a toe". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tiptoe?

tiptoe has 2 syllables: tip-toe. The stress falls on "tip". In IPA it is /ˈtɪpˌtoʊ/.

What is another word for tiptoe?

Close synonyms include tip, tippytoe. 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 tiptoe a common word?

tiptoe 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.

What rhymes with tiptoe?

24 words rhyme with tiptoe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.