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PIN
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Appendix:Variations of "pin"
English
personal identification number
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
See en pin.
Noun
en personal identification number personal identification number.
en 25 September 2026 Steve Humphrey Daniel Thomas pleads not guilty after dinghy slashed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0lr5r46z5jo BBC News Thomas, who appeared at Basingstoke Magistrates' Court in Hampshire via videolink, is also charged with failing to disclose the PIN to his phone. 26 September 2026 https://web.archive.org/web/20260925162753/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq0lr5r46z5jo
Alternative forms
en PIN number a commonly used pleonasm
Derived terms
en chip and PIN
en PIN pad
Translations
personal identification number
Arabic: ar رَقْم التَّعْرِيف الشَّخْصِيّ m, ar بين m bīn
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 密碼 mìmǎ, cmn 引線號 yǐn xiàn hào, cmn PIN碼 pìn mǎ, cmn 個人識別碼 gèrén shìbiémǎ
Czech: cs PIN m
Estonian: et PIN-kood
Finnish: fi PIN-koodi, fi tunnusluku
French: fr PIN m Europe, fr NIP m North America, fr numéro d'identification personnel m
Galician: gl NIP m
Georgian: ka PIN-კოდი, ka პინ კოდი, ka პინ-კოდი, ka პერსონალური საიდენტიფიკაციო ნომერი, ka პირადი საიდენტიფიკაციო ნომერი
German: de PIN-Code f, de PIN-Nummer f, de PIN f, de persönliche Identifikationsnummer f, de Geheimzahl f
Hungarian: hu személyi azonosító szám, hu PIN-kód
Icelandic: is persónulegt kenninúmer n, is PIN-númer n, is persónunúmer n
Italian: it codice PIN m, it NIP m Switzerland, rare
Japanese: ja 暗証番号 あんしょうばんごう, anshō bangō, ja PIN pin, ja 個人識別番号 こじんしきべつばんごう, kojin shikibetsubangō, ja PIN番号 pin bangō
Korean: ko 비밀번호, ko 개인식별번호
Macedonian: mk ПИН m
Māori: mi tātai whaiaro, mi tau tāututanga whaiaro, mi TTW
Persian: fa شماره شناسایی شخصی šomâre-ye šenâsâyi šaxsi شمارهٔ شناسایی شخصی, fa پین pin
Polish: pl PIN m
Portuguese: pt PIN m, pt número de identificação pessoal m
Russian: ru ПИН-ко́д m, ru PIN-ко́д m, ru ПИН m, ru ли́чный опознава́тельный но́мер m, ru персона́льный идентификацио́нный но́мер m personálʹnyj idɛntifikaciónnyj nómer
Spanish: es NIP m, es PIN m
Swedish: sv PIN-kod c, sv pinkod c
Turkish: tr PIN kodu
Ukrainian: uk пін-код m, uk PIN-код m, uk персона́льний ідентифікаці́йний но́мер m
Etymology 2
Noun
en organic chemistry en w:preferred IUPAC name.
Anagrams
en inp NIP NPI nip INP Nip
Dutch
Noun
m,n -s -netje
nl proscribed nl pin PIN, personal identification number
Indonesian
Noun
id noun
en personal identification number.
id pusat informasi nasional national information center
id pekan imunisasi nasional national immunization week
Further reading
Polish
pl:+
Etymology
pl :obor en:PIN + 1
Pronunciation
pin
Noun
m-in
en PIN personal identification number
Declension
<m.inan>
Further reading
pl initialisms
Spanish
Noun
m #
es pin
es es proyecto de es identificación es nacional