Entitled or titled?
entitled is an adjective meaning “Having a title”; titled is an adjective meaning “Bearing a title”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) entitled is about 2.6 times as common as titled.
What is the difference between entitled and titled?
| entitled | titled | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | adjective, verb | adjective, verb |
| Meaning | Having a title Having a legal or moral right or claim to something | Bearing a title Specifically, having a title of nobility; belonging to the peerage |
| Example | Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography' | a titled family |
| Pronunciation | /ɪnˈtaɪtl̩d/ | not recorded |
| In writing | 32 times per million words | 13 times per million words |
Sources: entitled and titled in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of entitled and titled
entitled
- 1
Having a title
Her book is entitled 'My Autobiography'
- 2
Having a legal or moral right or claim to something
As a natural-born citizen I am entitled to run for president
- 3
Convinced of one's own righteousness (self-righteousness) or the justifiability of one's actions or status, especially wrongly so; demanding and pretentious
titled
- 1
Bearing a title
- 2
Pronunciation spelling of entitled
- 3
Specifically, having a title of nobility; belonging to the peerage
a titled family
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, entitled or titled?
entitled appears 32 times per million words; titled 13 times per million words.
entitled 32 times per million wordstitled 13 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search entitled vs titled?
“entitled vs titled” is searched about 1,600 times a month on Google and 80 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“titled vs entitled”, “entitled or titled”).
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