Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

topee

/ˈtəʊ.pi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: topee
IPA: /ˈtəʊ.pi/

7

Scrabble Score

5

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Example Sentences

"I lent my topee to Camarião, who looked extremely odd in it."
"There were a few people on the platform, among them two Indian police, and a station oflicial with a white topee."
"'Not a drop of perspiration on his face,' Ned had commented, 'and in the tropics now no one wears a topee, except certain regiments, and Peter the Planter's type of topee blows off in anything over a five-knot breeze.'"

Etymology

From Hindi टोपी (ṭopī)/Urdu ٹوپی (ṭōpī).

Origin

Source language: Hindi

Word Breakdown

Root: टोपी, ٹوپی

Inflected Forms

topees (plural) topi (alternative)

Frequently Paired Words

topeewala

Synonyms

sola topee solar topee pith hat pith helmet sun helmet topi

Homonyms

topi

Questions

How do you pronounce topee?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈtəʊ.pi/.
What does topee mean?: A pith helmet.
Where does topee come from?: It is traced to Hindi.

How to pronounce topee

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