Which to use
“til” and “till” are a confusable Spanish pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #28,972
- “til” frequency rank
- #48,115
- “till” frequency rank
- 77087
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | til | till |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Hasta. | Hasta, hasta que, hasta la, hasta el. |
Same sound, different letters: til vs till
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 3 letters. til runs 3 letters (CVC) against till's 4 (CVCC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Ear matches; page differs - til and till
This is the hard kind. til and till are pronounced identically (/tɪl/) and both work as apreposition. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “til” sits inside “till”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 77087, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
til is recorded at frequency rank #28,972, classified as aprep, pronounced /tɪl/. till is at rank #48,115, tagged as aprep, pronounced /tɪl/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 77087, this pair ranks #16,609 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of til vs till
Shared letters: ilt. Private to "til": -. Private to "till": -.
"til" · 3 letters · shape CVC · "till" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
- till ← itll · tlil · ttill
Frequently Asked Questions
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After this comparison
Sound matches; spelling doesn't. Use the exits below to lock the right form or check a cousin pair.
- Full dictionary entry for "til" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "till" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #16,609 of 323,831 scored Spanish confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "til" and "till" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tale vs till". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #16,609 of 323,831 scored Spanish pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.