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tiling
6 letters · 5 distinct letters
- noun
the application of tiles to cover a surface
Word history
History of tile
From Middle English tile, tyl, tigel, tiȝel, teȝele, from Old English tiġele, tieġle, tiġle (“tile, brick”), from Proto West Germanic *tigulā (“tile, brick”), from Proto Germanic *tigulǭ (“tile, brick”), from Latin tēgula, from Proto Indo European *(s)teg (“to cover”).
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- Where it comes from
- Listed in the English Speller Database at size 35: the core list of everyday words.
- How common it is
- Used about once in every million words.
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