tittle-tattle
"tittle-tattle" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tittle-tattle” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petty, idle gossip.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tittle-tattle · tittle-tattle · English
tittle-tattle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tittle-tattle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tittle-tattle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tittle-tattle is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tittle-tattle, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Reduplication of tattle. The correct English form is tittle-tattle, spelled T-I-T-T-L-E---T-A-T-T-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petty, idle gossip.
- 2An idle, trifling talker; a gossip.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tittle-tattle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Every idle Tittle-tattle that went about, Jack was always ſuſpected for the author of it: […]
She has trouble enough on her hands, with the affairs of that silly young scapegrace, without being pestered by the tittle-tattle of this place. It is all an invention of that fool, Fribsby.
Etymology
Reduplication of tattle.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.