twin
/twɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "twin girls, twin daughters, twin sisters, twin boys, twin sons, twin brothers, twin babies, twin children"
- "Katie is Jessica's twin."
- "The twins are coming over this afternoon."
- "Your idea is the twin of mine."
- "He is my twin (wearing the same shirt, driving the same car, etc.)."
- "Yo, twin, lemme rap at ya."
Etymology
PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twinne, twynne, from Old English ġetwin, ġetwinn (“twin, multiple”, noun) and twinn (“twin, two-fold, double, two by two”, adjective), from Proto-Germanic *twinaz (“double/two each, twin”), Proto-Germanic *twinjaz, *twīhnaz (“two each”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwino- (“twin”), from *dwóh₁ (“two”). Cognate with Scots twyn (“twin”), Dutch tweeling (“twin”), German Zwilling (“twin”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish tvilling (“twin”), Faroese tvinnur (“a double set”), Icelandic tvenna (“duo, pair”), Lithuanian dvynys (“twin”), Russian двойня (dvojnja, “twin”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: twinne, ġetwin, *twinaz, *twinjaz, *dwino-, *twin
Usage
- Slang
- American usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb