Letters with tilde

The tilde (, also ) is a grapheme or with a number of uses. The name of the character came into English from Spanish , which, in turn, came from the Latin , meaning 'title' or 'superscription'. Its primary use is as a diacritic in combination with a base letter. Its freestanding form is used in modern texts mainly to indicate approximation.

Ñ or ñ ( ) is a letter of the extended Latin alphabet, formed by placing a tilde (also referred to as a in Spanish, in order to differentiate it from other diacritics, which are also called ) on top of an upper- or lower-case . The origin dates back to medieval Spanish, when the Latin digraph began to be abbreviated using a single with a roughly wavy line above it, and it eventually became part of the Spanish alphabet in the eighteenth century, when it was first formally defined.

A with tilde (majuscule: Ã, minuscule: ã) is a letter of the Latin alphabet formed by addition of the tilde diacritic over the letter A. It is used in Portuguese, Kashubian, Silesian, Guaraní, Aromanian, Taa, and Vietnamese. In the past, it was also used in Greenlandic.

"Õ" (uppercase), or "õ" (lowercase) is a composition of the Latin letter O with the diacritic mark tilde.

Ẽ, ẽ is a letter in which the tilde indicates a nasal vowel or nasal consonant.

thumb|Doulos SIL glyphs for Majuscule and minuscule g̃. G̃ / g̃ is a letter which combines the common letter G with a tilde.

Cyrillic letter

Cyrillic letter

Cyrillic letter

Cyrillic letter

Cyrillic letter

P̃ (majuscule: P̃, minuscule: p̃) is a Latin P with a diacritical tilde. It is or was used as a grapheme in some languages of Vanuatu, such as North Efate, South Efate and Namakura, to represent a sound , like the in "cat" and in "pay", pronounced simultaneously. It is also used in the Yanesha' language.

Cyrillic letter

thumb|249x249px|M with tilde in Doulos SIL