tilde
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#24,332
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
17
similar word pairs
tilde is aSpanishnoun. It means: 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... Pronounced [ˈt̪il̪d̪e]. Often confused with time and tiré.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilde |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈt̪il̪d̪e] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #24,332 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 17 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for tilde is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈt̪il̪d̪e]. Corpus data places it at rank #24,332 in overall Spanish word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for tilde, with forms such as "itlde", "tidle", and "tildde". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 17 confusable-pair relationships, "time", "tiré", "till", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is tilde, spelled T-I-L-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1El 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.
- 2Por extensión, cualquier marca diacrítica superscrita que se use para distinguir una letra de otra.
- 3Porción mínima de algo.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: itlde,tidle,tildde,tiled,tillde,tlide,ttilde
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for tilde
Misspelling Variants of "tilde"
Frequency rank: #24,332 in Spanish
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