twin
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, twin sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4thin, twig
What it means
- adjectivebeing two identical
- nouneither of two offspring born at the same time from the same pregnancy
- nouna duplicate copy
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t w 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
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.