Which to use
“till” and “tilt” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #36,617
- “till” frequency rank
- #34,331
- “tilt” frequency rank
- 70948
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | till | tilt |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Graine oléagineuse venant de l’Inde. | Mécanisme destiné à interrompre une partie de flipper quand le joueur triche en soulevant l'appareil de façon à en modifier l'inclinaison. |
Where the eye mixes till and tilt
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. till and tilt follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (CVCC). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between till and tilt
A purely visual mix-up. till (\til\) and tilt (\tilt\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by a single letter - l in “till” becomes t in “tilt”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 70948, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
till is recorded at frequency rank #36,617, classified as anoun, pronounced \til\. tilt is at rank #34,331, tagged as anoun, pronounced \tilt\.
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 70948, this pair ranks #49,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - among the most confusable pairs.
Orthographic DNA of till vs tilt
Shared letters: ilt. Private to "till": -. Private to "tilt": -.
"till" · 4 letters · shape CVCC · "tilt" · 4 letters · shape CVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "till" for "tilt" ever safe?
Frequency check: "till" vs "tilt" - which ranks higher?
What to do next
Eye-level mix-up between "till" and "tilt" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "till" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "tilt" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #49,379 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "till" and "tilt" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "tif 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 #49,379 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.