# tilting

> English word · Noun · frequency rank #24,931

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

## Easily confused with
- **timing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-timing)
- **tiring** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-tiring)
- **tipping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-tipping)
- **touting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-touting)
- **Tooting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-tooting)
- **tolling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-tolling)
- **toiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-toiling)
- **twisting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tilting-vs-twisting)
- **tiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tiling-vs-tilting)
- **talking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/talking-vs-tilting)
- **telling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/telling-vs-tilting)
- **testing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/testing-vs-tilting)
- **texting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/texting-vs-tilting)
- **tasting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tasting-vs-tilting)
- **ticking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/ticking-vs-tilting)
- **tailing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tailing-vs-tilting)
- **tidying** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/tidying-vs-tilting)

## Common misspellings (11)
`itlting`, `tilitng`, `tillting`, `tiltign`, `tiltingg`, `tiltinng`, `tiltnig`, `tiltting`, `titling`, `tliting`, `ttilting`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/tilting