spins
/spɪnz/noun, verb
spins is spelled S-P-I-N-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, spins means “vertigo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of spins is the spins.
How many letters and syllables are in spins?
| Letters | 5: S-P-I-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.2 times per million words; the 14,731st 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 spins?
Spins appears 3.2 times per million words in written English, the 14,731st 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 spins?
- /spɪnz/
Spins 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-spins.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of spins
- the spins plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does spins mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
vertigo
- 2
plural of spin
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of spin
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).