tilde
French, noun/tild/
tilde is spelled T-I-L-D-E (5 letters) and appears about once in every 7 million words in written French, the 86,540th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Tilde is a French masculine noun meaning “tilde” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Caractère ~”.
What does tilde mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinetilde
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Caractère ~. 2. Signe diacritique de l’alphabet latin noté ◌̃ notamment utilisé en espagnol (ñ), en portugais (ã, õ), en guarani, en vietnamien, et en breton. 3. Signe diacritique de l’alphabet phonétique international indiquant une nasalisation. 4. En forme de tilde.
adjective: 1. Surmonté d’un tilde.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of tilde
- tildes plural
- tildés plural masculine
- tildée singular feminine
- tildées plural feminine
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce tilde?
- /tild/
- \tild\
- \til.de\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to tilde
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is tilde in French?
tilde appears about once in every 7 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).