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think

/ˈθɪŋk/verb, noun

think is spelled T-H-I-N-K. The wrong spelling people search most is htink: about 10 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 526 of all searches for the word. Think is a verb meaning “To ponder, to go over in one's mind”.

How many letters and syllables are in think?

Letters5: T-H-I-N-K
Syllables1
In writing1,202 times per million words; the 90th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched3; the most searched, htink, about 10 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell think?

Think is spelled T-H-I-N-K. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 174 of the searches for think in either form.

thinkthe right spelling5,190 searches a month
htinkt and h swapped10 searches a month
thiknn and k swapped10 searches a month
thiunkan extra u10 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is think?

Think appears 1,202 times per million words in written English, the 90th 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 think?

  • US /ˈθɪŋk/
  • US [ˈθɪŋk]
  • /ˈθæŋk/

Think has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Back_ache-think.wav, En-us-think.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-GonFreeaks-think.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with think

Also written: fink.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with think?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as think from its last stressed vowel (/ɪŋk/):

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).

Forms of think

  • thinks present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • thinking participle, present
  • thought participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • thunk participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does think mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To ponder, to go over in one's mind.

    Idly, the detective thought what his next move should be.

  2. 2

    To have (some statement) in one's mind; to say to oneself mentally.

    "I should phone my mother," I thought.

  3. 3

    To communicate to oneself in one's mind, to try to find a solution to a problem.

    I thought for three hours about the problem and still couldn’t find the solution.

  4. 4

    To conceive of something or someone

    I tend to think of her as rather ugly.

  5. 5

    To be of the opinion (that); to consider, judge, regard, or look upon (something) as.

    I don't think it worth complaining about the leak in the roof, is it?

  6. 6

    To guess; to reckon; to believe while admittedly being uncertain.

    We should/would have thought she could've washed her hands before, at least.

  7. 7

    To plan; to be considering; to be of a mind (to do something).

  8. 8

    To presume; to venture.

  9. 9

    To seem, to appear.

noun

  1. 1

    UKAn act of thinking; consideration (of something).

    I'll have a think about that and let you know.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you abbreviate think?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of think: thnk.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Think in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchréfléchir à, ruminer, penser (to ponder, to go over in one's head), penser à, songer à (communicate to oneself in one’s mind), pensée (an act of thinking)
Germannachdenken, überlegen (to ponder, to go over in one's head), denken (communicate to oneself in one’s mind), Gedanke (an act of thinking), finden, meinen (be of the opinion that – see also believe, opine)
Portuguesepensar (to ponder, to go over in one's head), refletir (communicate to oneself in one’s mind), pensada (an act of thinking), achar, considerar, ter por (to conceive of something or someone)
Spanishpensar (to ponder, to go over in one's head), pensada, pensamiento (an act of thinking)

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 think come from?

From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þenċan, from Proto-West Germanic *þankijan, from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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