Past tense of top
regular verb
The past tense of top is topped. The past participle is also topped.
Forms of top
| Base form (V1) | top /tɒp/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | topped /tɒpt/ |
| Past participle (V3) | topped /tɒpt/ |
| Present participle | topping /ˈtɑpɪŋ/ |
| Third person singular | tops /tɒps/ |
Topped in a sentence
- I like my ice cream topped with chocolate sauce.
- Five were proper slender youths, the eldest of whom had not yet beard full grown, black-browed and great of jaw; the sixth, huge as a neat, topped them by half a head.1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 17
- Mowing the lawn and chopping the weeds topped his to-do list of chores.From the entry to-do list
- I topped my chili with grated cheese and my mango soufflé with grated orange rind.From the entry grated
- The waitress topped off my coffee every few minutes.From the entry top off
Meaning of top
- noun The highest or uppermost part of something.
- noun The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- noun The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
Questions about the past tense of top
- What is the past tense of top?
- The past tense of top is topped.
- What is the past participle of top?
- The past participle of top is topped.
- Is top a regular or irregular verb?
- Top is a regular verb: its past tense doubles the last letter and adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: top (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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