pint
/paɪnt/noun
pint is spelled P-I-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pint means “20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pint is pints.
How many letters and syllables are in pint?
| Letters | 4: P-I-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.6 times per million words; the 11,870th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
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).
How common is pint?
Pint appears 4.6 times per million words in written English, the 11,870th 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 pint?
- /paɪnt/
Pint 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-pint.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of pint
- pints plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does pint mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
CommonwealthUK20 fluid ounces, approximately 568 millilitres (an imperial pint).
- 2
US16 US fluid ounces [473 millilitres] for liquids (a US liquid pint) or
- 3
USapproximately 33.6 cubic inches [550.6 cubic centimeters] for dry goods (a US dry pint).
- 4
1.696 liters.
- 5
12 fluid ounces.
- 6
UKA pint of milk.
Please leave three pints tomorrow, milkman.
- 7
UKA glass of beer or cider, served by the pint.
A couple of pints please, barman.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate pint?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of pint: pt.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Pint in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | chopine , chopine de lait , pinte, sérieux, cannette |
| German | Pint |
| Portuguese | quartilho, pint |
| Spanish | pinta |
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 pint come from?
From Middle English pinte, from Old French pinte, assumed from Vulgar Latin *pincta (“a mark used to indicate a level of quantity against a larger measure”), from Latin picta (“painted”), from Latin pingō (“paint”, verb). Doublet of pinto and Pinto.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).