ins
/ɪnz/verb, noun
ins is spelled I-N-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, ins means “insert” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in ins?
| Letters | 3: I-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 8.3 times per million words; the 8,036th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is ins?
Ins appears 8.3 times per million words in written English, the 8,036th 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).
How do you pronounce ins?
- /ɪnz/
Ins has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with ins?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as ins.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: sin, nis.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does ins mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
insert
noun
- 1
plural of in
noun
- 1
Initialism of isolated neutron star.
- 2
Initialism of inertial navigation system.
- 3
Initialism of iodine number saponification.
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of Insert.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).