tilting

noun

"tilting" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“tilting” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #24,931. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#24,931
frequency rank, English
3,151
“T” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
17
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.

Corpus desk

Index EN-tilting · tilting · English

tilting · rank #24,931 · 11 variants · 17 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #24,931
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 17 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,151
  • PHOTO-FINISH throbbing

Nearest frequency peer: throbbing (-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 “tilting”

Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword

corpus weight

What this shows “tilting” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tilting vs timing
71% similar
tilting vs tiring
71% similar
tilting vs tipping
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tilting
PropertyValue
Headwordtilting
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters7
Frequency rank#24,931
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs17
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tilting”

This scale runs from the tiny cluster of words that carry ordinary speech (left) to the long tail of words almost nobody reaches for (right).tiltinglands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Same rarity band neighbours include “throbbing” (#24,930), “treasured” (#24,933), “TCP” (#24,928). Among 3,151 “T” headwords, “tilting” is #24,931. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around tilting, anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,931 among 3,151 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for tilting, with forms such as "itlting", "tilitng", and "tillting". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "timing", "tiring", "tipping", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is tilting, spelled T-I-L-T-I-N-G.

Definition

  1. 1
    The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
  2. 2
    The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
  3. 3
    A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tilting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […] when they grew up to adolescent muttonhood, it required all the prowess and interference of the papa sheep to prevent them from breaking each other's skulls by their constant tiltings and buttings.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itlting
  • tilitng
  • tillting
  • tiltign
  • tiltingg
  • tiltinng
  • tiltnig
  • tiltting
  • titling
  • tliting
  • ttilting

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tilting - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

itlting2tilitng2tillting1tiltign2tiltingg1tiltinng1tiltnig2tiltting1
Edit distance from "tilting"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tilting"?
"tilting" is spelled T-I-L-T-I-N-G.
What does "tilting" mean?
As a noun, "tilting" means: The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
What words are commonly confused with "tilting"?
"tilting" is commonly confused with "timing", "tiring", "tipping". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "tilting" come from?
"tilting" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tilting", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list