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link

/ˈlɪŋk/noun, verb

link is spelled L-I-N-K: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 98 times per million words in written English, the 1,112th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting Link, the name). As a noun, link means “A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of link is links.

How many letters and syllables are in link?

Letters4: L-I-N-K
Syllables1
In writing98 times per million words; the 1,112th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 link?

Link appears 98 times per million words in written English, the 1,112th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes Link, the name.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce link?

  • /ˈlɪŋk/
  • [ˈlɪŋk]
  • /ˈliŋk/

Link has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-link.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with link?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as link.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: kiln.

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).

Forms of link

  • links plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • linking participle, present
  • linked participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does link mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A connection between places, people, events, things, or ideas.

    The mayor’s assistant serves as the link to the media.

  2. 2

    One element of a chain or other connected series.

    The third link of the silver chain needs to be resoldered.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of hyperlink.

    The link on the page points to the sports scores.

  4. 4

    The connection between buses or systems.

    A by-N-link is composed of N lanes.

  5. 5

    A space comprising one or more disjoint knots.

  6. 6

    A thin wild bank of land splitting two cultivated patches and often linking two hills.

  7. 7

    An individual person or element in a system.

  8. 8

    Anything doubled and closed like a link of a chain.

  9. 9

    obsoleteA torch, used to light dark streets.

verb

  1. 1

    To connect (two or more things).

  2. 2

    To contain a hyperlink to another page.

    My homepage links to my wife's.

  3. 3

    To supply (someone) with a hyperlink; to direct by means of a link.

    Haven't you seen his website? I'll link you to it.

  4. 4

    To post a hyperlink to.

    Stop linking those unfunny comics all the time!

  5. 5

    To demonstrate a correlation between (two things).

  6. 6

    To combine objects generated by a compiler into a single executable.

  7. 7

    slangTo meet with (someone).

  8. 8

    ScotlandTo skip or trip along smartly; to go quickly.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Link in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchlien, connexion, rapport (connection), maillon, chaînon (element of a chain), relier (to connect)
GermanVerbindung (connection), Verknüpfung, Glied (element of a chain), Link, Hyperlink, Verweis (computing: short for hyperlink – see also…)
Portugueseligação, vínculo (connection), elo (element of a chain), ligar (to connect), link, hiperligação (computing: short for hyperlink – see also…)
Spanishenlace, vínculo, lazo (connection), eslabón (element of a chain), enlazar, ligar (to connect)

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 link come from?

From Middle English linke, lenke, from a merger of Old English hlenċe, hlenċa (“ring; chainlink”) and Old Norse *hlenkr, hlekkr (“ring; chain”); both from Proto-Germanic *hlankiz (“ring; bond; fettle; fetter”), from Proto-Germanic *hlankaz (“bendsome, flexible”), from Proto-Indo-European *kleng-, *klenk- (“to bend; twist; wind”). Used in English since the 14th century. Related to lank.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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