tilde

Meanings

Plural: tildes

Noun

a diacritical mark (~) placed over the letter n in Spanish to indicate a palatal nasal sound or over a vowel in Portuguese to indicate nasalization
A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
In Spanish, ⟨ñ⟩ is a palatalized ⟨n⟩, for example in ⟨cañón⟩.
A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
In Portuguese, ⟨ã⟩ and ⟨õ⟩ are nasalized vowels, for example in ⟨canção⟩.
A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
Another name for the Vietnamese tone mark dấu ngã, which is placed above a vowel to indicate a creaky rising tone (thanh ngã).
A diacritical mark ⟨˜⟩ placed above a letter to modify its pronunciation.
Another name for apex, a curved diacritic used in the 17th century to mark final nasalization in the early Vietnamese alphabet. It was an adoption of the Portuguese tilde.
A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
The character encoded as decimal 126 in the 1967 ASCII character set, and later in the 1992 Unicode character set.
A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
A punctuation mark that indicates range (from a number to another number). This use is common in Asia, where the symbol in this case is also called a wave dash.
A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
In lexicography, the ⟨~⟩ symbol is used used to indicate the repetition of the topical word or item. In this case, the symbol is also called a swung dash.
A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
May be used to represent approximation, in English prose and in mathematics. For example, “My dog weighs ~30 pounds.”
A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.
An alternate form of the logical negation operator, which is usually written as ¬.
A symbol ⟨~⟩, with various names and uses, also known as swung dash or wave dash. In the computer industry, various other names may be used, such as squiggle and twiddle.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til.

Scrabble Score: 6

tilde is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
tilde is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tilde is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

tilde is a valid Words With Friends word