vine
/ˈvaɪ̯n/noun
vine is spelled V-I-N-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, vine means “Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of vine is vines.
How many letters and syllables are in vine?
| Letters | 4: V-I-N-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 5.4 times per million words; the 10,680th 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 vine?
Vine appears 5.4 times per million words in written English, the 10,680th 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 vine?
- /ˈvaɪ̯n/
- [ˈvaɪ̯n]
Vine has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-vine.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-Vine.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with vine?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as vine.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: vein.
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 vine
- vines plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does vine mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Any plant whose stem requires support and which climbs by tendrils or twining.
- 2
Any plant the stem of which creeps along the ground.
- 3
A stem of such plants, especially when thick and rope-like; a liana.
- 4
UKA climbing plant that produces grapes.
They picked the grapes off the vine.
- 5
Any plant of the genus Vitis.
noun
- 1
A looping video clip of a few seconds in duration, frequently used on social media.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Vine in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | vid, parra, labrusca, parriza, parrón, cepa |
| French | grimpante |
| German | Kletterpflanze, Ranke, Schlingpflanze |
| Portuguese | cipó |
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 vine come from?
From Middle English vyne, from Anglo-Norman vigne, from Vulgar Latin vīnia, from Latin vīnea (“vines in a vineyard”), from vīneus (“related to wine”), from vīnum (“wine”), from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom (“vine, wine”), from *weh₁y- (“to twist, wrap”). Doublet of wine.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).