skein

1. 1.

   coils of worsted yarn

   Broaderhank

Other forms of skein

plural

skeins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about skein

What does skein mean?

skein means "coils of worsted yarn".

How many syllables are in skein?

skein has 1 syllable: skein. In IPA it is /ˈskeɪn/.

Is skein a common word?

skein is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.