kine
/kaɪn/
"kine" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“kine” is uncommon English (frequency #83,418 among 1,236 “K” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,418
- frequency rank, English
- 1,236
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of cow
Corpus desk
Index EN-kine · kine · English
kine · rank #83,418 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,418
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,236
- PHOTO-FINISH kiting
Nearest frequency peer: kiting (+3 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “kine”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Kerwin
Kerwin
16,591 corpus weight
- ketoacidosis
ketoacidosis
16,590 corpus weight
- Khalaf
Khalaf
16,589 corpus weight
- kine
kine
16,583 corpus weight
- kiting
kiting
16,580 corpus weight
- Koller
Koller
16,576 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “kine” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | kine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /kaɪn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #83,418 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “kine” in English
Rare enough to double-check
kine is uncommon English at frequency #83,418 among 1,236 “K” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /kaɪn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of cow".
Zero misspellings are on record for kine in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English kyn, kyne, equivalent to ky + -en (plural ending), a double plural. The correct English form is kine, spelled K-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1plural of cow
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how kine appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pippin could see all the Pelennor laid out before him, dotted into the distance with farmsteads and little walls, barns and byres, but nowhere could he see any kine or other beasts.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English kyn, kyne, equivalent to ky + -en (plural ending), a double plural.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).