peen
/piːn/
"peen" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“peen” is uncommon English (frequency #63,880 among 4,417 “P” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,880
- frequency rank, English
- 4,417
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
Corpus desk
Index EN-peen · peen · English
peen · rank #63,880 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,880
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,417
- PHOTO-FINISH pecked
Nearest frequency peer: pecked (-1 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 “peen”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- passé
passé
36,126 corpus weight
- Pathan
Pathan
36,125 corpus weight
- pecked
pecked
36,122 corpus weight
- peen
peen
36,121 corpus weight
- pennywise
pennywise
36,120 corpus weight
- perilously
perilously
36,117 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “peen” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | peen |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /piːn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #63,880 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “peen” in English
Rare enough to double-check
peen is uncommon English at frequency #63,880 among 4,417 “P” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /piːn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.".
peen doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”). The correct English form is peen, spelled P-E-E-N.
Definition
- 1The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
Etymology
Probably from a North Germanic source, compare dialectal Norwegian penn (“peen”), Danish pind (“peg”), German Pinne (“the peen of a hammer”), Old Swedish pæna (“to pound iron with a hammer”).
This word in other languages
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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