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tis

UK /tɪz/noun, contraction

tis is spelled T-I-S: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tis means “plural of ti” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in tis?

Letters3: T-I-S
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing4.0 times per million words; the 12,940th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
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 tis?

Tis appears 4.0 times per million words in written English, the 12,940th 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 tis?

  • UK /tɪz/

Tis 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-tis.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tis?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as tis from its last stressed vowel (/ɪz/, British pronunciation):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: its, sit, ist.

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 tis mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    plural of ti (a form of ti)

noun

as TIS
  1. 1

    Initialism of truth in sentencing.

  2. 2

    Acronym of traffic information system.

noun

as TIs
  1. 1

    plural of TI (a form of TI)

contraction

  1. 1

    Alternative form of 'tis.

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

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