tilde
\tild\
The verdict
“tilde” is uncommon French (frequency #87,210 among 3,703 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,210
- frequency rank, French
- 3,703
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère ~.
Corpus desk
Index FR-tilde · tilde · French
tilde · rank #87,210 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,210
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,703
- PHOTO-FINISH tiller
Nearest frequency peer: tiller (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « tilde »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- terranova
terranova
12,795 corpus weight
- terrorisait
terrorisait
12,794 corpus weight
- tilde
tilde
12,791 corpus weight
- tiller
tiller
12,790 corpus weight
- topiques
topiques
12,788 corpus weight
- torn
torn
12,787 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « tilde » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tild\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #87,210 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « tilde » en français
Rare enough to double-check
tilde is uncommon French at frequency #87,210 among 3,703 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \tild\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for tilde in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is tilde, spelled T-I-L-D-E.
Definition
- 1Caractère ~.
- 2Signe diacritique de l’alphabet latin noté ◌̃ notamment utilisé en espagnol (ñ), en portugais (ã, õ), en guarani, en vietnamien, et en breton.
- 3Signe diacritique de l’alphabet phonétique international indiquant une nasalisation.
- 4En forme de tilde.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tilde appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En passant la souris sur les boutons, on obtient dans le champ situé en dessous, de gauche à droite, le code permettant d’obtenir le gras, l’italique, un lien interne ou externe au wiki, un titre, la façon d’insérer une image ou un son, une formule mathématique au format Latex (qui respecte le mieux les règles propres à cette écriture particulière), la si…
De même, je décompose en [s] l'usage typographique de la ligature, en [et] les esperluètes [&], et je supprime les rares tildes rencontrés pour la marque de la troisième personne du pluriel: […].
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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