sheen
/ʃiːn/noun, verb
sheen is spelled S-H-E-E-N: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, sheen means “Splendor; radiance; shininess” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of sheen is sheens.
How many letters and syllables are in sheen?
| Letters | 5: S-H-E-E-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.2 times per million words; the 18,537th 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 sheen?
Sheen appears 2.2 times per million words in written English, the 18,537th 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 sheen?
- /ʃiːn/
Sheen 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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-sheen.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of sheen
- sheener comparative
- sheenest superlative
- sheens plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- sheening participle, present
- sheened participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sheen mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Splendor; radiance; shininess.
- 2
A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.
oil sheen
- 3
The letter ش in the Arabic script.
adjective
- 1
archaicrareBeautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
- 2
archaicrareClear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.
verb
- 1
rareTo shine; to glisten.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Sheen in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
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 sheen come from?
From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).