min
/mɪn/noun
min is spelled M-I-N: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data, counting MIN, the name). As a noun, min means “Abbreviation of minute” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of min is mins or mins..
How many letters and syllables are in min?
| Letters | 3: M-I-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is min?
Min appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th most frequent word form in the list. The list counts every capitalisation together, so this includes MIN, 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 min?
- /mɪn/
Min 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-min.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with min
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with min?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as min.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nim.
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 min
- mins plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- min.
- myn
- minne
- mynne
- minning participle, present
- minned participle, past
- mins. plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does min mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Abbreviation of minute.
- 2
colloquialClipping of minute.
Dinner's ready, darling! – Be there in a min!
- 3
informalminoxidil
- 4
obsoleteMemory; remembrance.
- 5
Abbreviation of minimum.
- 6
colloquialClipping of minimum.
He's gotta be at least 60, min!
adjective
- 1
ScotlandUKobsoleteLess; smaller; lower.
The more and the minne
verb
- 1
obsoleteto bring to the mind of; remind
- 2
obsoleteto remember
- 3
obsoleteto mention
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).