thine
/ðaɪn/obsolete
thine is spelled T-H-I-N-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a determiner, thine means “Honorific alternative letter-case form of thine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in thine?
| Letters | 5: T-H-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.0 times per million words; the 19,336th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with |
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 thine?
Thine appears 2.0 times per million words in written English, the 19,336th 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 thine?
- UK /ðaɪn/
Thine 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-thine.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with thine?
4 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as thine from its last stressed vowel (/aɪn/, British pronunciation):
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 thine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
determiner
- 1
archaicSecond-person singular prevocalic possessive determiner (preconsonantal form: thy).
determiner
- 1
Honorific alternative letter-case form of thine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
pronoun
- 1
Honorific alternative letter-case form of thine, sometimes used when referring to God or another important figure who is understood from context.
pronoun
- 1
archaicSecond-person singular possessive pronoun; yours.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Thine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | ton, ta, tes , le tien, la tienne, les tiens |
| German | dein , deiner, der deine |
| Portuguese | teu , seu |
| Spanish | tu, tuyo, tuya , el tuyo, la tuya |
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 thine come from?
From Middle English thyn, þyn, from Old English þīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz. Cognate to German dein, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian din, Faroese tín and Icelandic þinn.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).