tilt
\tilt\
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
- texan
texan
65,673 corpus weight
- TGI
TGI
65,672 corpus weight
- tilt
tilt
65,670 corpus weight
- tirelire
tirelire
65,669 corpus weight
- titrage
titrage
65,668 corpus weight
- tombale
tombale
65,667 corpus weight
What this shows « tilt » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tilt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \tilt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #34,331 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « tilt »
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
- 1Mécanisme destiné à interrompre une partie de flipper quand le joueur triche en soulevant l'appareil de façon à en modifier l'inclinaison.
- 2Action provoquée par enclenchement de ce mécanisme.
- 3Déclic d'un mécanisme. Déclic intellectuel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how tilt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J'ai également mon public : les loubards qui sortent des minettes de Prisu et qui me dérangent en cognant contre le tilt du flipper, ….
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.
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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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).