tin
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, tin sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1nit
- One letter away
- 25bin, din
What it means
- nouna silvery malleable metallic element that resists corrosion; used in many alloys and to coat other metals to prevent corrosion; obtained chiefly from cassiterite where it occurs as tin oxide
- nouna vessel (box, can, pan, etc.) made of tinplate and used mainly in baking
- nounmetal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ih1 n — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
50 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- akin
- been
- begin
- bin
- chagrin
- chin
- din
- fin
- foreskin
- gin
- grin
- herein
- in
- inn
- kin
- linchpin
- mandolin
- pin
- shin
- sin
- skin
- spin
- tailspin
- therein
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: nit.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.