Which to use
“thigh” is a noun and “thine” is a determiner - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #10,781
- “thigh” frequency rank
- #19,485
- “thine” frequency rank
- 30266
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | thigh | thine |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | The upper leg of a human, between the hip and the knee. | Second-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy). |
Where the eye mixes thigh and thine
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. thigh (CCVCC) and thine (CCVCV) run the same length but a different consonant-vowel pattern - the shape difference is usually the fastest tell.
Visual trap between thigh and thine
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: thigh is /θaɪ/ while thine is /ðaɪn/. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions, and the parts of speech differ too (noun vs determiner), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 30266, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
thigh is recorded at frequency rank #10,781, classified as anoun, pronounced /θaɪ/. thine is at rank #19,485, tagged as adet, pronounced /ðaɪn/.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 30266, this pair ranks #356,035 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of thigh vs thine
Shared letters: hit. Private to "thigh": g. Private to "thine": en.
"thigh" · 5 letters · shape CCVCC · "thine" · 5 letters · shape CCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "thigh" and "thine" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary English text, does "thigh" or "thine" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "thigh" and "thine" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "thigh" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "thine" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #356,035 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "thigh" and "thine" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "thine vs Thun". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #356,035 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.