tilt
/tɪlt/
"tilt" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tilt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,988. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,988
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To slope or incline (something); to slant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tilt · tilt · English
tilt · rank #11,988 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,988
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Theo
Nearest frequency peer: Theo (-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 “tilt”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- tangible
tangible
88,017 corpus weight
- Tara
Tara
88,016 corpus weight
- Theo
Theo
88,014 corpus weight
- tilt
tilt
88,013 corpus weight
- tougher
tougher
88,011 corpus weight
- trivial
trivial
88,010 corpus weight
What this shows “tilt” 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 | tilt |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /tɪlt/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,988 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tilt”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around tilt (IPA /tɪlt/), averb. Corpus frequency is #11,988 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tilt, with forms such as "itlt", "tillt", and "tiltt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "TL", "TT", "tip", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (… The correct English form is tilt, spelled T-I-L-T.
Definition
- 1To slope or incline (something); to slant.
- 2To be at an angle.
- 3To charge (at someone) with a lance.
- 4To point or thrust a weapon at.
- 5To point or thrust (a weapon).
- 6To forge (something) with a tilt hammer.
- 7To intentionally let the ball fall down to the drain by disabling flippers and most targets, done as a punishment to the player when the machine is nudged too violently or frequently.
- 8To enter a state of frustration and worsened performance resulting from a series of losses.
- 9To modify one's approach.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tilt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tilt the barrel to pour out its contents.
For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.
Etymology
From Middle English tilte, from Old English *tyltan, *tieltan (“to be unsteady”), related to the adjective tealt (“unsteady”), from Proto-West Germanic *talt, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del-, *dul- (“to shake, hesitate”), see also Dutch touteren (“to tremble”), North Frisian talt, tolt (“unstable, shaky”). Cognate with Icelandic tölt (“an ambling pace”). The nominal sense of "a joust" appears around 1510, presumably derived from the barrier which separated the combatants, which suggests connection with tilt "covering". The modern transitive meaning is from 1590; the intransitive use appears 1620. The sense of gaming frustration is said to originate with pinball.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- itlt
- tillt
- tiltt
- titl
- tlit
- ttilt
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tilt - 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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