tilt

\tilt\

/\tilt\/ noun

The verdict

“tilt” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#34,331
frequency rank, French
3,703
“T” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mécanisme destiné à interrompre une partie de flipper quand le joueur triche en soulevant l'appareil de façon à en modifier l'inclinaison.

Corpus desk

Index FR-tilt · tilt · French

tilt · rank #34,331 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #34,331
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,703
  • PHOTO-FINISH tirelire

Nearest frequency peer: tirelire (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « tilt »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « tilt » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

tilt vs Tl
25% similar
tilt vs tir
50% similar
tilt vs tim
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for tilt
PropertyValue
Headwordtilt
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\tilt\
Letters4
Frequency rank#34,331
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tilt »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.tiltse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « tirelire » (#34,332), « TGI » (#34,329), « titrage » (#34,333). Parmi 3,703 lemmes en « T », « tilt » est au #34,331. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around tilt (IPA \tilt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,331 among 3,703 “T” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for tilt, with forms such as "itlt", "tillt", and "tiltt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Tl", "tir", "tim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is tilt, spelled T-I-L-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Mécanisme destiné à interrompre une partie de flipper quand le joueur triche en soulevant l'appareil de façon à en modifier l'inclinaison.
  2. 2
    Action provoquée par enclenchement de ce mécanisme.
  3. 3
    Déclic d'un mécanisme. Déclic intellectuel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how tilt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. J'ai également mon public : les loubards qui sortent des minettes de Prisu et qui me dérangent en cognant contre le tilt du flipper, ….
  2. Le tilt qui s'ensuivit produisit un bruit presque irréel. Un farfadet très agité et debout sous la plaque de verre du flipper se mit à ricaner en fixant Robert bizarrement.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • itlt
  • tillt
  • tiltt
  • titl
  • tlit
  • ttilt

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of tilt - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

itlt2tillt1tiltt1titl2tlit2ttilt1
Edit distance from "tilt"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tilt"?
"tilt" is spelled T-I-L-T. The IPA pronunciation is \tilt\.
What does "tilt" mean?
As a noun, "tilt" means: Mécanisme destiné à interrompre une partie de flipper quand le joueur triche en soulevant l'appareil de façon à en modifier l'inclinaison.
What words are commonly confused with "tilt"?
"tilt" is commonly confused with "Tl", "tir", "tim". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "tilt"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "tilt" is \tilt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "tilt" come from?
"tilt" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
Is PlainSpell free to use?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "tilt", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list