pines
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pines sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4penis, snipe
- One letter away
- 25dines, fines
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pines is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pin — a piece of jewelry that is pinned onto the wearer's garment. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ay1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
61 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airlines
- aligns
- assigns
- canines
- coastlines
- combines
- confines
- deadlines
- declines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- felines
- fines
- grapevines
- guidelines
- headlines
- inclines
- lifelines
- lines
- mines
- nines
- outlines
- outshines
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: penis, snipe, spine, peins.
One letter away
- dines
- fines
- lines
- mines
- nines
- panes
- pikes
- piles
- pined
- pinks
- pints
- pipes
- vines
- wines
- piney
- pings
- pones
- sines
- tines
- bines
- cines
- kines
- pixes
- penes
- pinas
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.