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Five-letter words ending in IN

82 words, number 9 of 285 two-letter endings

Every five-letter word in ENABLE (a public-domain Scrabble-style list, not any game’s answer list) that ends in IN, slurs removed, common words first. 19 of the 82 are common in English dictionaries (the SCOWL grade), which says nothing about any puzzle’s answer. The letter just before IN is most often AIN (14), SIN (7), PIN (6).

Type a letter twice (EE) to require two copies.

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82 of 82 words shown

Common 19 words, in SCOWL’s small dictionary sizes (35 or less)

  • again
  • basin
  • begin
  • brain
  • cabin
  • chain
  • drain
  • grain
  • groin
  • lupin
  • plain
  • resin
  • robin
  • satin
  • skein
  • slain
  • stain
  • toxin
  • train

Everyday 9 words, SCOWL sizes 40-50

  • bruin
  • cumin
  • elfin
  • gamin
  • rosin
  • stein
  • swain
  • twain
  • unpin

Less common 29 words, SCOWL sizes 55-70

  • actin
  • algin
  • aloin
  • amain
  • auxin
  • blain
  • burin
  • covin
  • cutin
  • eosin
  • hemin
  • kinin
  • lapin
  • levin
  • linin
  • lysin
  • matin
  • mucin
  • olein
  • patin
  • quoin
  • ravin
  • renin
  • sabin
  • sasin
  • serin
  • takin
  • venin
  • zayin

Rare 25 words, SCOWL sizes 80-95, or not in SCOWL

  • colin
  • conin
  • elain
  • eloin
  • fagin
  • ficin
  • iodin
  • lipin
  • mavin
  • opsin
  • orcin
  • orpin
  • pavin
  • pekin
  • purin
  • rawin
  • repin
  • rewin
  • ricin
  • rutin
  • sarin
  • savin
  • sozin
  • thein
  • yogin

0 inflected forms: no word ending in IN is a plural or an -s, -es or -ed form under the rule on the word-list index, because that rule only ever catches words ending in S or D.