tilde
Spanish, noun
tilde is spelled T-I-L-D-E (5 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish, the 24,044th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tilde is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “diacritic” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present subjunctive of tildar. With an accent, tildé is a different word: “first-person singular preterite indicative of tildar”. The Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) defines it as “El acento agudo; marca gráfica ´ que se usa, en castellano, para indicar la sílaba en donde recae el acento…”.
What does tilde mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemasculinediacritic
- 2
femininemasculineacute accent
llevar tilde
- 3
femininemasculinetilde
- 4
femininemasculinecriticism, censure
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- 2
third-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
first-person singular preterite indicative of tildar
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
noun: 1. El acento agudo; marca gráfica ´ que se usa, en castellano, para indicar la sílaba en donde recae el acento prosódico cuando las reglas ortográficas prescriben que es necesario hacerlo o que, de lo contrario, caería en otra sílaba. 2. Por extensión, cualquier marca diacrítica superscrita que se use para distinguir una letra de otra. 3. Porción mínima de algo.
noun: 1. Signo con forma de ve (✓) que representa la aceptación o conformidad con una solicitud o afirmación. 2. Tacha u mácula que presenta alguna cosa.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tilde
- tildes plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to tilde
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tilde in Spanish?
tilde appears 1.8 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).