twins
/twɪnz/noun, verb
twins is spelled T-W-I-N-S: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, twins means “A woman's breasts” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in twins?
| Letters | 5: T-W-I-N-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,595th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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).
How common is twins?
Twins appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,595th 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 twins?
- /twɪnz/
Twins 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: En-au-twins.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does twins mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangA woman's breasts.
- 2
plural of twin
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of twin
noun
- 1
plural of Twin
Two Twins won a Gold Glove Award last year.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).