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say it: teenz
teens is a noun meaning "the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20". It is pronounced /ˈtinz/ — teenz. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the time of life between the ages of 12 and 20
all the numbers that end in -teen
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for teens come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.