tint
/tɪnt/noun, verb, contraction
tint is spelled T-I-N-T: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “tent vs tint” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, tint means “A slight coloring” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tint is tints.
How many letters and syllables are in tint?
| Letters | 4: T-I-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.7 times per million words; the 21,798th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); 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).
How common is tint?
Tint appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,798th 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 tint?
- /tɪnt/
Tint 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)-Vealhurl-tint.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with tint
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
Forms of tint
- tints plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- tinting participle, present
- tinted participle, past
- int
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does tint mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A slight coloring.
- 2
A pale or faint tinge of any color; especially, a variation of a color obtained by adding white (contrast shade)
- 3
A color considered with reference to other very similar colors.
Red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.
- 4
A shaded effect in engraving, produced by the juxtaposition of many fine parallel lines.
- 5
informalA vehicle window that has been darkened to conceal the occupant.
verb
- 1
To shade, to color.
contraction
- 1
colloquialit is not; it isn't
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Tint in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Tönung , Ton, Farbton , tönen, färben, einfärben |
| Portuguese | coloração , colorir |
| Spanish | tinta, coloración, colorido , teñir , matiz, tinte |
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 tint come from?
Alteration of earlier tinct, influenced by French teinte (“tint”), from Latin tīnctus (“dyed”), past participle of verb tingō (“tinge”). Doublet of tent (“kind of red wine”). Cognate with Dutch tint, Estonian tint, French teinte, German Tinte, Hungarian tinta, Italian tinta, Luxembourgish Tintin, Portuguese tinta, and Spanish tinta.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).