peen
/piːn/noun, verb
peen is spelled P-E-E-N: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, peen means “The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of peen is peens.
How many letters and syllables are in peen?
| Letters | 4: P-E-E-N |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 peen?
Peen appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th 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 peen?
- /piːn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-peen.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with peen
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with peen?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as peen.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: pene, neep.
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 peen
- peens plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- pane
- pean
- pein
- piend
- peening participle, present
- peened participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does peen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The (often spherical) end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end.
- 2
slangPenis.
verb
- 1
To shape metal by striking it, especially with a peen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Peen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense end of the head of a hammer opposite the main hammering end:
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 peen come from?
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”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).