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VIN

/vɪn/noun

VIN is a noun meaning “Acronym of vehicle identification number” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-I-N and has one syllable, and it appears 2.6 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of VIN is VINs.

What does VIN mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Acronym of vehicle identification number.

  2. 2

    Acronym of vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia.

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

How do you pronounce VIN?

  • /vɪn/

VIN 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).

Forms of VIN

  • VINs plural

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

How common is VIN?

VIN appears 2.6 times per million words in written English, the 16,687th 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).

Where does VIN come from?

From vinca.

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