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Is moan a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word moan is a Scrabble US word. The word moan is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

M3O1A1N1

Is moan a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word moan is a Scrabble UK word and has 6 points:

M3O1A1N1

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Yes. The word moan is a Words With Friends word. The word moan is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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4-letter words (4 found)

MANO,MOAN,MONA,NOMA,

3-letter words (7 found)

MAN,MNA,MOA,MON,NAM,NOM,OMA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AM,AN,MA,MO,NA,NO,OM,ON,

You can make 19 words from moan according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of moan

moan oman maon amon oamn aomn mona omna mnoa nmoa onma noma mano amno mnao nmao anmo namo oanm aonm onam noam anom naom

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Definitions and meaning of moan

moan

Etymology

From Middle English mone, mane, mān, (also as mene), from Old English *mān, *mǣn (“complaint; lamentation”), from Proto-West Germanic *mainu, from Proto-Germanic *mainō (“opinion; mind”).

Cognate with Old Frisian mēne (“opinion”), Old High German meina (“opinion”). Old English *mān, *mǣn is inferred from Old English mǣnan (“to complain over; grieve; mourn”). More at mean.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: mōn, IPA(key): /məʊn/
  • (US) enPR: mōn, IPA(key): /moʊn/
  • Rhymes: -əʊn
  • Homophone: mown

Noun

moan (plural moans)

  1. a low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure

Translations

Verb

moan (third-person singular simple present moans, present participle moaning, simple past and past participle moaned)

  1. (transitive, now rare) To complain about; to bemoan, to bewail; to mourn. [from 13th c.]
    • 1708, Matthew Prior, the Turtle and the Sparrow
  2. (intransitive, now chiefly poetic) To grieve. [from 14th c.]
  3. (intransitive) To make a moan or similar sound. [from 18th c.]
  4. (transitive) To say in a moan, or with a moaning voice. [from 19th c.]
    ‘Please don't leave me,’ he moaned.
  5. (intransitive, colloquial) To complain; to grumble. [from 20th c.]
  6. (transitive, obsolete) To distress (someone); to sadden. [15th–17th c.]

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:complain

Derived terms

Related terms

  • bemoan

Translations

See also

  • murmur
  • protest
  • lament

Further reading

  • “moan”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “moan”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

  • Amon, Mano, Mona, NOMA, Noam, Oman, Onam, mano, maon, mona, noma

Breton

Alternative forms

  • moen

Etymology

From Middle Breton moen, from Old Breton moin, from Proto-Brythonic *muɨn (“beautiful”). Compare Welsh mwyn (“mild, gentle”)), Irish maoin (“property, riches”)), Latin mūnis (“obliging”), Old English mǣne (“common”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmwãːn/

Adjective

moan

  1. thin, slender
    Synonym: tanav
    Antonym: tev

Mutation

Finnish

Noun

moan

  1. genitive singular of moa

Anagrams

  • Oman, oman

Yola

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔːn/
  • Homophone: mawen

Etymology 1

Noun

moan

  1. Alternative form of mawen

Etymology 2

From Middle English mone, from Old English mān, from Proto-West Germanic *mainu.

Noun

moan

  1. moan

References

  • Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland

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