shin
/ʃɪn/
"shin" is a 4-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #11,461. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,461
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Corpus desk
Index EN-shin · shin · English
shin · rank #11,461 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,461
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH shale
Nearest frequency peer: shale (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “shin”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- separating
separating
88,543 corpus weight
- sewing
sewing
88,542 corpus weight
- shale
shale
88,541 corpus weight
- shin
shin
88,540 corpus weight
- simplified
simplified
88,538 corpus weight
- slipping
slipping
88,537 corpus weight
What this shows “shin” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shin |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ʃɪn/ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #11,461 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “shin”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around shin (IPA /ʃɪn/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,461 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for shin, with forms such as "hsin", "shhin", and "shinn". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "SI", "six", "son", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin. The correct English form is shin, spelled S-H-I-N.
Definition
- 1The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- 2A fishplate for a railway
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how shin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.
Etymology
From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- hsin
- shhin
- shinn
- shni
- sihn
- sshin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of shin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "shin", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).