Noun: tilde
| Singular | tilde |
| Plural | tildes |
Sample Sentences
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California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸). [2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025:]
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The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally. [2021, Claire Cock-Starkey, Hyphens & Hashtags, Bodleian Library, page 162:]
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swung dash A stock keyboard character, used in mathematics as the sign of similarity (a ~ b) and in lexicography as a sign of repetition. The same sign has been used in symbolic logic to indicate negation, but to avoid confusion, the angular negation symbol (¬) is preferred. Not to be confused with the tilde. [1992, Robert Bringhurst, The Elements of Typographic Style:]
Nouns inflected like tilde
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til. See: Spanish Nouns '
tilde', Latin Nouns '
titulus', Portuguese Nouns '
til'.