Tiling

/ˈtaɪlɪŋ/

Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM

Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:10 pts6 letters

Definition of Tiling

verb

To cover with tiles.
"The handyman tiled the kitchen."
To arrange in a regular pattern, with adjoining edges (applied to tile-like objects, graphics, windows in a computer interface).
To optimize (a loop in program code) by means of the tiling technique.

verb

To protect from the intrusion of the uninitiated.
"tile the door"

noun

A covering of tiles.
"All the tiling in the bathroom must be removed because of water damage to the wood under it."
The act of applying tiles.
"We spent all day doing the tiling in the bathroom."
A tessellation; the covering of a plane with shapes, without overlaps or gaps.
A technique for optimizing loops by partitioning the iteration space into smaller chunks or blocks that will more easily fit in a cache.

Anagrams of Tiling

Words You Can Make

14 words can be made from the letters in "tiling":

5-LETTER WORDS

4-LETTER WORDS

gilt inti ling lint ting

3-LETTER WORDS

gin git lin lit nil nit til tin

+1 Letter Anagrams

Words formed by adding one letter to "tiling" and rearranging:

+aintagli tailing

+ffliting lifting

+kkilting kitling

+llilting tilling

Related Word Patterns

TI...Words starting with "ti"...NGWords ending with "ng"All 6-letter words Unscramble "tiling"

Rhyming Words

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