trittle trattle
"trittle-trattle" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trittle trattle” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle.
Corpus desk
Index EN-trittle-trattle · trittle trattle · English
trittle trattle · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | trittle trattle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trittle trattle” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trittle trattle is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for trittle trattle in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: A Scots and dialectal English term stemming from the verb trattle (to prattle/chatter) and related to "trinkum-trankum". An earlier version, trittlyl-trattyll, is recorded as early as 1529. The correct English form is trittle trattle, spelled T-R-I-T-T-L-E- -T-R-A-T-T-L-E.
Definition
- 1Nonsense; foolish talk, idle chatter, or meaningless trifle.
- 2Cheap, tawdry trinkets or nick-nacks; worthless small items one might buy at a market.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how trittle trattle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Your wife is now well at Penshurst; the small-pox hath but kissed her face. Post-script.—I pray leave your “trittle trattle trollilollies and come to us.”
“Now trittle trattle trollylow,” Quoth the third man, “thou does but mow!”
Etymology
A Scots and dialectal English term stemming from the verb trattle (to prattle/chatter) and related to "trinkum-trankum". An earlier version, trittlyl-trattyll, is recorded as early as 1529.
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.