tilth

Other forms of tilth

plural

tilths·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about tilth

What does tilth mean?

tilth means "the state of aggregation of soil and its condition for supporting plant growth". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tilth?

tilth has 1 syllable: tilth. In IPA it is /ˈtɪlθ/.

What is another word for tilth?

Close synonyms include cultivated land, farmland, plowland, ploughland, tilled land. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tilth a common word?

tilth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.