tilting
"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
- tarot
tarot
75,074 corpus weight
- TCP
TCP
75,073 corpus weight
- throbbing
throbbing
75,071 corpus weight
- tilting
tilting
75,070 corpus weight
- treasured
treasured
75,068 corpus weight
- tungsten
tungsten
75,067 corpus weight
What this shows “tilting” 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 | tilting |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #24,931 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “tilting”
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
- 1The motion of something that tilts; a tilt.
- 2The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
- 3A charging with (or as if with) a lance, as in jousting.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how tilting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] 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.
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
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).