Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jul 2026
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Today's word is tilde, spelled T-I-L-D-E.
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Tilda is a noun.
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It refers to the mark that looks like a squiggly line placed especially over the letter N, as in the Spanish word senor.
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This mark indicates nasality in languages like Spanish and Portuguese.
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When a tilda appears as an independent character, it usually means approximately, as in we'll be there in approximately thirty minutes, indicated by a tilde.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Orange County Register.
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Californians with accents, tildes, and other diacritical marks in their names will soon be able to have their vital records accurately reflect their names.
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The terms pinha calada and la niña share more than just a cool factor.
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They're both Spanish loan words whose spellings include tildas, those wavy marks which, in these examples, are placed over the letter N to indicate a blend of the sounds N and Y.
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Tilda is itself a Spanish borrowing rooted in the Latin word titulus, an ancestor of the English words title and titular that means title or inscription.
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The Spanish and English applications of the word tilda are distinct.
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In Spanish, tilde refers most commonly to the accent symbol, while N with a tilde above it is its own member of the alphabet, pronounced Nye.
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In contrast, English speakers use tilde specifically for the aforementioned mark.
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In addition to functioning as a diacritic, that is a mark placed with a character to indicate pronunciation, the tilde may be used as an independent character to indicate approximation, negation in logic, or similarity in mathematics.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sogolowski.
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It's the Word of the Day for August 25th.
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Today's word is tilde, spelled T-I-L-D-E.
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Tilde is a noun.
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It refers to the mark that looks like a squiggly line placed especially over the letter N, as in the Spanish word señor.
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