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tinc

noun

tinc is spelled T-I-N-C: 4 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tinc means “The dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tinc is tincs.

How many letters and syllables are in tinc?

Letters4: T-I-N-C
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is tinc?

Tinc appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th 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).

Forms of tinc

  • tincs plural

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

What does tinc mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    informalThe dyeing poison dart frog (Dendrobates tinctorius).

phrase

as TINC
  1. 1

    Initialism of There Is No Cabal.

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

Where does tinc come from?

Probably from the Latin specific epithet tinctorius.

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

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