'twill
/twɪl/
"twill" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“'twill” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a contraction. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Contraction of it + will.
Corpus desk
Index EN-twill · 'twill · English
'twill · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "'" 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 | 'twill |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Contraction |
| IPA | /twɪl/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “'twill” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
'twill is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as acontraction, transcribed /twɪl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Contraction of it + will.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for 'twill, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Contraction of "(i)t will". The correct English form is 'twill, spelled '-T-W-I-L-L.
Definition
- 1Contraction of it + will.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how 'twill appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mercutio:No: 'tis not so deepe as a well, nor so wide as a Church doore, but 'tis inough, ’twill serue: aske for me to morrow, and you shall find me a graue man.
“You get the Red Room, Kipper.” “Right-ho.” “I had it last year. ’Tis not as deep as a well nor as wide as a church door, but ’tis enough, ’twill serve,” I said, recalling a gag of Jeeves’s.
Etymology
Contraction of "(i)t will".
Antonyms
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.
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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.