tit
/tɪt/
"tit" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tit” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #15,533) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #15,533
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A person's breast or nipple.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tit · tit · English
tit · rank #15,533 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,533
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH thug
Nearest frequency peer: thug (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “tit”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- thorn
thorn
84,470 corpus weight
- thug
thug
84,469 corpus weight
- tit
tit
84,468 corpus weight
- toned
toned
84,467 corpus weight
- triggering
triggering
84,465 corpus weight
- Tulsa
Tulsa
84,464 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “tit” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | tit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɪt/ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #15,533 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “tit” sits in English frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for tit is neighbouring look-alikes ("to", "TV", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced /tɪt/. Frequency #15,533 among 3,151 “T” headwords. 4 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Zero misspellings are on record for tit in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "to", "TV", "TL", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin. Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰe… The correct English form is tit, spelled T-I-T.
Definition
- 1A person's breast or nipple.
- 2An animal's teat or udder.
- 3An idiot; a fool.
- 4A police officer; a "tithead".
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I have enjoyed taking to my writing bureau and writing about poverty, benefit reform and the coalition government in the manner of a shit Dickens, or Orwell, but with tits.
Sanch tossed his head back, threw open his shirt, cupped his beanbag-shaped male breasts and jiggled them at us. Ford and I were laughing but Kat said, "I think they're the most beautiful tits."
Etymology
From Middle English tit, titte, tette, from Old English tit, titt, from Proto-West Germanic *titt, from Proto-Germanic *tittaz (“teat; nipple; breast”), of expressive origin. Perhaps related to an original meaning “to suck”; compare Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-y-. Doublet of teat, which was borrowed from Old French. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tit, Dutch tiet, dialectal Dutch tet, German Zitze, Titte, Hunsrik Ditz, Yiddish ציצע (tsitse).
This word in other languages
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.