tidbit
/ˈtɪd.bɪt/
"tidbit" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tidbit” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #49,098. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,098
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A part of poultry when prepared as food
Corpus desk
Index EN-tidbit · tidbit · English
tidbit · rank #49,098 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,098
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH tik
Nearest frequency peer: tik (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “tidbit”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tidbit
tidbit
50,903 corpus weight
- tik
tik
50,902 corpus weight
- tobe
tobe
50,901 corpus weight
- toma
toma
50,900 corpus weight
- torturous
torturous
50,898 corpus weight
- torus
torus
50,897 corpus weight
What this shows “tidbit” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tidbit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈtɪd.bɪt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,098 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tidbit”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around tidbit (IPA /ˈtɪd.bɪt/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,098 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for tidbit, with forms such as "itdbit", "tdibit", and "tibdit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Tibet", "tibia", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From tid (“fond, tender, nice”) + bit (“morsel”). The correct English form is tidbit, spelled T-I-D-B-I-T.
Definition
- 1A part of poultry when prepared as food
- 2A tasty morsel (of food).
- 3A short item of news, gossip, or information.
- 4Generically, any small thing.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tidbit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The best mode of cutting up this Poultry is by raising, one after another, the four members, beginning by a thigh and wing on the same side, the tidbits and the white-meats; then break off the rump, and cut the body horizontally. Divide each thigh into two, and wing into three pieces; the body and the rump making six distinct ones; the white meats remaini…
If in any case he ever reserved the tidbits of his own table for his own taste, he was never weary of sending the whole joint, tidbit and all, nay even when the whole joint was itself a tidbit, to his neighbor's table.
Etymology
From tid (“fond, tender, nice”) + bit (“morsel”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itdbit
- tdibit
- tibdit
- tidbbit
- tidbitt
- tidbti
- tiddbit
- tidibt
- ttidbit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tidbit - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).