# since

> English word · Adverb · IPA /sɪn(t)s/ · frequency rank #175

## Definitions
1. From a specified time in the past.

## Etymology
From Middle English syns, synnes, contraction of earlier sithens, sithence, from sithen (“after, since”) ( + -s, adverbial genitive suffix), from Old English sīþþan, from the phrase sīþ þǣm (“after/since that (time)”), from sīþ (“since, after”) + þǣm dative singular of þæt. Cognate with Dutch sinds (“since”), German seit (“since”), Danish siden (“since”), Icelandic síðan (“since”) Scots syne (“since”).

## Easily confused with
- **site** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-site)
- **size** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-size)
- **sing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sing)
- **sink** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sink)
- **sins** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sins)
- **sync** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sync)
- **sire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sire)
- **sine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sine)
- **sone** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sone)
- **space** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-space)
- **Singh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-singh)
- **slice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-slice)
- **spice** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-spice)
- **spine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-spine)
- **sings** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sings)
- **sinks** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sinks)
- **swine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-swine)
- **sinus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sinus)
- **Sindh** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sindh)
- **Sinha** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/since-vs-sinha)

## Common misspellings (7)
`isnce`, `sicne`, `sincce`, `sinec`, `sinnce`, `snice`, `ssince`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/since