Definitions
The mark ~ used over letters or in computing and mathematics.
Word origin
Borrowed from Spanish tilde, from Latin titulus (“superscript”) or from tildar. Doublet of titer/titre, title, titlo, tittle, and titulus. Compare Portuguese til.
Used in a sentence
“California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).”
“The tilde was used similarly in Portuguese on vowels to show that the letter bearing the tilde should be pronounced nasally.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Squiggle over a letter”5 letters
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