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paint

/peɪnt/noun, verb

paint is spelled P-A-I-N-T: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, paint means “A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of paint is paints.

How many letters and syllables are in paint?

Letters5: P-A-I-N-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing33 times per million words; the 2,888th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 paint?

Paint appears 33 times per million words in written English, the 2,888th 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 paint?

  • /peɪnt/
  • /pɛjɳʈ/
  • /peɳʈ/

Paint 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: En-us-paint.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-paint.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with paint?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: pinta, inapt.

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 paint

  • paints plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • painting participle, present
  • painted participle, past

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

What does paint mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A substance that is applied as a liquid or paste, and dries into a solid coating that protects or adds colour to an object or surface to which it has been applied.

    fresh coat of paint

  2. 2

    A set of containers or blocks of paint of different colors/colours, used for painting pictures.

  3. 3

    slangThe free-throw lane, construed with the.

    The Nimrods are strong on the outside, but not very good in the paint.

  4. 4

    slangPaintballs.

    I am running low on paint for my marker.

  5. 5

    slangSynonym of face card (king, queen, or jack).

  6. 6

    Graphics drawn using an input device, not scanned or generated.

  7. 7

    Makeup.

  8. 8

    slangTattoo work.

verb

  1. 1

    To apply paint to.

    I painted the bathroom walls light blue, and I painted the ceiling white.

  2. 2

    To apply in the manner that paint is applied.

  3. 3

    To apply with a brush in order to treat some body part.

  4. 4

    To cover (something) with spots of colour, like paint.

  5. 5

    To create (an image) with paints.

    to paint a portrait or a landscape

  6. 6

    To practise the art of painting pictures.

    I've been painting since I was a young child.

  7. 7

    To draw an element in a graphical user interface.

  8. 8

    To depict or portray.

    She sued the author of the biography, claiming it painted her as a duplicitous fraud.

noun

as Paint
  1. 1

    A paint horse.

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

Paint in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchpeinture (substance), peindre, peinturer (to apply paint to)
GermanFarbe, Lack (substance), bemalen, anmalen, streichen, malen (to apply paint to)
Portuguesepintura, tinta (substance), pintar (to apply paint to)
Spanishpintura (substance), pintar (to apply paint to)

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 paint come from?

From Middle English peynten, from Old French peintier, paincter, itself from paint, the past participle of paindre, from Latin pingō (“to paint”) (perfect passive participle pictus).

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

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