tilde

Pronunciation

• IPA ^(key): /ˈtɪldə/ or /ˈtɪldi/

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Noun

Singular tilde

Plural tildes

1. (countable) A punctuation character used in some different languages.

   Tilde is used in the Spanish word piñata.

2. (countable) Wikimedia's projects use tildes to sign comments on talk pages.

   Sign comments with four tildes.

Punctuation marks (edit)

apostrophe ( ' ) ( ’ ) • brackets ( [] ) • braces ( {} ) • colon ( : ) • comma ( , ) • dashes ( – ) ( — ) • ellipsis ( ... ) • exclamation mark ( ! ) • hyphen ( ‐ ) ( - ) • parentheses ( () ) • period / full stop ( . ) • question mark ( ? ) • quotation marks ( ' ' ) ( " " ) • semicolon ( ; ) • slash ( / ) Other: ampersand ( & ) • asterisk ( * ) • at ( @ ) • backslash ( \ ) • bullet ( • ) ( · ) • degree ( ° ) • number sign / pound sign ( # ) • tilde ( ~ ) • underscore ( _ ) • vertical bar / pipe ( | ) •