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Is pain a Scrabble word?

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

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Is pain a Scrabble UK word?

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

P3A1I1N1

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

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Valid words made from Pain

You can make 17 words from 'pain' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

4 letters words from 'pain'

NIPA 6PAIN 6
PIAN 6PINA 6

3 letters words from 'pain'

AIN 3ANI 3
NAP 5NIP 5
PAN 5PIA 5
PIN 5 

2 letters words from 'pain'

AI 2AN 2
IN 2NA 2
PA 4PI 4

All 4 letters words made out of pain

pain apin pian ipan aipn iapn pani apni pnai npai anpi napi pina ipna pnia npia inpa nipa ainp ianp anip naip inap niap

Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word pain. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in pain.

Definitions and meaning of pain

pain

Etymology 1

From Middle English peyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Norman peine, paine, from Latin poena (“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greek ποινή (poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”). Compare Danish pine, Norwegian Bokmål pine, German Pein, Dutch pijn, Afrikaans pyn. See also pine (the verb). Partially displaced native Old English sār (whence English sore).

Alternative forms

  • paine (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pʰān, IPA(key): /peɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophone: pane

Noun

pain (countable and uncountable, plural pains)

  1. (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
  2. (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
  3. (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
  4. (uncountable, obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
  5. (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
Usage notes
  • Adjectives often used with "pain": mild, moderate, severe, intense, excruciating, debilitating, acute, chronic, sharp, dull, burning, steady, throbbing, stabbing, spasmodic, etc.
Synonyms
  • (an annoying person or thing): pest
  • See also Thesaurus:pain
Antonyms
  • pleasure
Hyponyms
  • agony
  • anguish
  • pang
  • neuropathic pain
  • nociceptive pain
  • phantom pain
  • psychogenic pain
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

Verb

pain (third-person singular simple present pains, present participle paining, simple past and past participle pained)

  1. (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
    The wound pained him.
  2. (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
    It pains me to say that I must let you go.
  3. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English payn (“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old French pain (“bread”).

Noun

pain (plural pains)

  1. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
    gammon pain; Spanish pain

References

  • pain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • pain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • pain at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • APNI, NIPA, PANI, nipa, pian, pina, piña

Bilbil

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

Noun

pain

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Finnish

Noun

pain

  1. inflection of pai:
    1. genitive singular
    2. instructive plural

Anagrams

  • apin, pani, pian

French

Etymology

From Old French pain, from Latin pānis, pānem, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to feed, to graze”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pɛ̃/
  • Homophones: pains, peins, peint, peints, pin, pins

Noun

pain m (plural pains)

  1. bread
  2. piece of bread
  3. food
    • 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
      Sa nudité déplaît, sa détresse importune, / Et tous les jours, hélas ! à tout le monde en vain / Il demande une chambre, un habit et du pain.
      His nudity embarrasses, his distress importunes, / And all the days, alas! to everyone in vain / He ask a bedroom, clothes and foods.
  4. bread-and-butter needs, basic sustenance; breadwinner
    • 1830 Juvénal, Les Satires, translated into French verse by Barré de Jallais
      Ce danseur, déployant une jambe soigneuse / À tenir l’équilibre, et la corde douteuse, / Trouve dans son talent des habits et du pain, / Et son art lui subjugue et le froid et la faim : […]
  5. (informal) punch (a hit with the fist)
    • 2006, Maurice Léger, Moi, Antoinette Védrines, thanatopractrice et pilier de rugby, Publibook
      J’étais redescendue dare-dare, bien décidée à lui mettre un pain dans la tronche.
      I was redescended quickly, really steadfast to blow him a punch on his face.
  6. a block (of ice, of salt, of soap …) with the shape and size of bread
  7. (slang) (music) mistake during a performance (false note, forgot an intro, wrong solo, …)

Derived terms

Related terms

  • panier

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: pen
  • Karipúna Creole French: djipẽ
  • → Farefare: pãanɛ

Further reading

  • “pain” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

  • pina

Gedaged

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

Noun

pain

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
  • ABVD
  • Gedaged Bible translation, Genesis 1:27: Tamol pain mai inaulak.

Matukar

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

Noun

pain

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Norman

Alternative forms

  • pôin (Guernsey)

Etymology

From Old French pain.

Pronunciation

Noun

pain m (plural pains)

  1. (Jersey) bread

Derived terms

  • gângne-pain (“breadwinner”)
  • pain d'êpice (“gingerbread”)
  • p'tit pain (“roll”)

Old French

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pain m (oblique plural painz, nominative singular painz, nominative plural pain)

  1. bread

Descendants

  • French: pain
    • Haitian Creole: pen
    • Karipúna Creole French: djipẽ
    • → Farefare: pãanɛ
  • Norman: pain, pôin
  • Walloon: pwin, pan
  • → Middle English: payn, pain, paine, payn, pein
    • English: pain (obsolete)

Ronji

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

Noun

pain

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Tagalog

Noun

pain

  1. bait (for catching fish, rats, etc.)
  2. decoy
  3. nest egg

Wab

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *babinahi, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi.

Noun

pain

  1. woman

Further reading

  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to cause suffering or distress.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)