As nouns the difference between tankling and tangling
is that tankling is (obsolete) a tinkling while tangling is a tangled structure.
As a verb tangling is
.
tangling
English
Verb
(head)
Noun
(
en noun)
A tangled structure.
* 1776 , , Poetical amusements at a villa near Bath (volume 2, page 91)
- the thorny tanglings of the wood