hatpin
noun
hatpin is a noun meaning “A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-A-T-P-I-N, and it appears about once in every 40 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of hatpin is hatpins.
What does hatpin mean?
noun
- 1
A long straight pin, often with a decorative head, used to secure a woman's hat to her hair.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hatpin
- hatpins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hatpin?
Hatpin appears about once in every 40 million words in written English, the 194,306th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Hatpin in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense pin used to secure a woman's hat to her hair:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Hutnadel |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hatpin come from?
From hat + pin.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).