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pins

/pɪnz/noun, verb

pins is spelled P-I-N-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pins means “plural of pin” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in pins?

Letters4: P-I-N-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing6.3 times per million words; the 9,594th 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 pins?

Pins appears 6.3 times per million words in written English, the 9,594th 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 pins?

  • /pɪnz/

Pins 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-pins.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with pins?

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

Spelled with the same letters in another order: spin, snip.

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).

What does pins mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of pin (a form of pin)

verb

  1. 1

    third-person singular simple present indicative of pin (a form of pin)

noun

as PINS
  1. 1

    USAcronym of person in need of supervision (“a juvenile not currently living with a parent or guardian”).

noun

as PINs
  1. 1

    plural of PIN (a form of PIN)

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

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