tittle

Other forms of tittle

plural

tittles·

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 tittle

What does tittle mean?

tittle means "a tiny or scarcely detectable amount".

How many syllables are in tittle?

tittle has 2 syllables: tit-tle. The stress falls on "tit". In IPA it is /ˈtɪtəl/.

What is another word for tittle?

Close synonyms include shred, scintilla, whit, iota, smidgen. 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 tittle a common word?

tittle 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.