| English | German |
| app tile | App-Kachel (A tile on the Start screen, as defined in its manifest. An app can only have one app tile, but it can have multiple secondary tiles) |
| default tile | Standardkachel (The tile that a developer defines in the manifest. It's the app tile before it receives its first update notification. It consists of just a logo as an image, plus an optional short name) |
| large tile | große Kachel (A square tile of 310 x 310 pixels on the Start screen) |
| map tile | Kartenkachel (One of a number of 256 x 256 pixel images that are combined to create a Bing map. A map tile contains a segment of a view of the earth in Mercator projection, with possible road and text overlays depending on the style of the Bing map) |
| medium tile | Mittelgroße Kachel (A square tile of 150 x 150 pixels on the Start screen) |
| mixer tile | Mischkarte (In Purble Place, a type of tile that when matched will jumble all the tiles on the board) |
| season tile | Jahreszeitenspielstein (A tile type in Shanghai Solitaire. There are four season tiles, each representing a season) |
| secondary tile | sekundäre Kachel (A shortcut to places within an app or to other content) |
| small tile | kleine Kachel (A square tile of 70 x 70 pixels on the Start screen) |
| square tile | quadratische Kachel (A square tile of 150 x 150 pixels on the Start screen) |
| tile brush | Kacheleffekt (A brush used to fill the interiors of graphical shapes such as rectangles, ellipses, pies, polygons, and paths with a tile pattern) |
| tile horizontally | untereinander andordnen, Untereinander (To rearrange and resize open files or windows into horizontal tiles that display above and below one another without overlapping) |
| Tile image | Hintergrund auffüllen (A UI element that enables a user to repeat an image so that it fills the page) |
| tile server | Kachelserver (A map image caching engine that caches and serves pregenerated, fixed-size map image tiles) |
| tile vertically | nebeneinander anordnen, Nebeneinander (To rearrange and resize open files or windows into vertical tiles that display next to one another without overlapping) |
| wide tile | breite Kachel (A rectangular tile of 310 x 150 pixels on the Start screen) |
