tilling
"tilling" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tilling” is uncommon English (frequency #62,573 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,573
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of till
Corpus desk
Index EN-tilling · tilling · English
tilling · rank #62,573 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,573
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thusly
Nearest frequency peer: thusly (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “tilling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- thespian
thespian
37,432 corpus weight
- Thibodeau
Thibodeau
37,431 corpus weight
- Thucydides
Thucydides
37,430 corpus weight
- thusly
thusly
37,429 corpus weight
- tilling
tilling
37,428 corpus weight
- tinkle
tinkle
37,426 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tilling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,573 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tilling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tilling is uncommon English at frequency #62,573 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of till".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tilling, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tillynge, tiliyng, tilyenge, tylynge, from Old English tiliende, tilġende, equivalent to till + -ing. The correct English form is tilling, spelled T-I-L-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of till
Etymology
From Middle English tillynge, tiliyng, tilyenge, tylynge, from Old English tiliende, tilġende, equivalent to till + -ing.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).