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sipes

sipes is the plural of sipe.

Meaning of sipe

Noun

sipe (plural sipes)

  1. (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
  2. (UK, dialectal) A drain.

See all 5 meanings of sipe

Proper noun capitalized: Sipes

Sipes (plural Sipeses)

  1. A surname from German.

Forms of sipes

pluralSipeses

Origin of sipes

Probably an altered form of German Seip.

Questions about sipes

What does sipes mean?
Sipes means a surname from German.
What is sipes the plural of?
Sipes is the plural of sipe.
What part of speech is sipes?
Sipes is a proper noun.

Words near sipes in the dictionary

  1. Sipaulovi
  2. sipe
  3. siped
  4. Sipek
  5. siperone
  6. sipes
  7. Sipeses
  8. sipful
  9. sipfuls
  10. Sipher
  11. Siphers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sipes (page history and authors); Sipes (page history and authors); sipe (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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