Mississippi vs Tupelo

Mississippi and Tupelo both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Mississippi	Yes	No	No	No
Tupelo	Yes	No	No	No

Mississippi (noun)	Tupelo (noun)
a state in the Deep South on the gulf of Mexico; one of the Confederate States during the American Civil War	a town in northeast Mississippi
a major North American river and the chief river of the United States; rises in northern Minnesota and flows southward into the Gulf of Mexico