A toupee is a hairpiece which sits atop someone's bald head. Liberals and Wordonista Wordanista Wordinista 's often place a toupee on the word itself, so it is spelled like toupée. They do this to be all fancy. But that spelling is French and therefore wrong. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.