teens
/tiːnz/noun
teens is spelled T-E-E-N-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, teens means “The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in teens?
| Letters | 5: T-E-E-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,496th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is teens?
Teens appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,496th 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 teens?
- /tiːnz/
Teens 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)-Persent101-teens.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-teens.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with teens?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as teens.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tense, steen, sente, senet.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does teens mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The numbers between thirteen and nineteen (inclusive).
The number of people at the meeting was in the teens.
- 2
The time of life between thirteen and nineteen years old; the teenage years.
She is in her teens.
- 3
The second decade of a century: the 1910s, 2010s, etc. The oneties, the tens.
I was so excited for the teens to be over but then we get to the twenties and suddenly it's a pandemic!
- 4
The range between 10 and 19.
Although it was a scorching desert by day, temperatures could drop as low as the teens at night.
- 5
plural of teen
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does teens come from?
The final syllable of the numbers from thirteen to nineteen. More at teen.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).