trephine
/tɹɪˈfaɪn/noun, verb
trephine is spelled T-R-E-P-H-I-N-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, trephine means “A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, such as bone or cornea; a trepan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of trephine is trephines.
How many letters and syllables are in trephine?
| Letters | 8: T-R-E-P-H-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| In writing | about once in every 59 million words; the 240,237th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is trephine?
Trephine appears about once in every 59 million words in written English, the 240,237th 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 trephine?
- /tɹɪˈfaɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with trephine?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as trephine.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: nephrite, prehnite.
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 trephine
- trephines plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- trephining participle, present
- trephined participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does trephine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, such as bone or cornea; a trepan.
They removed a core of bone as well as took a bone marrow aspirate from my right hip using a trephine to exclude me having blood cancer, causing a blood- and serum-stained shirt, a whopping hematoma and a great deal of mental anguish and ph
verb
- 1
To use a trephine during surgery.
- 2
To perforate with a trephine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Trephine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense surgical instrument to remove a circular section from the skull:
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 trephine come from?
Borrowed from French tréphine, from Latin trepanum, from Ancient Greek τρύπανον (trúpanon, “auger, borer”). Doublet of trepan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).