You can make 17 words from pain according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.
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 Englishpeyne, payne, from Old French and Anglo-Normanpeine, paine, from Latinpoena(“punishment, pain”), from Ancient Greekποινή(poinḗ, “bloodmoney, weregild, fine, price paid, penalty”).
Doublet of peine. Compare Danishpine, Norwegian Bokmålpine, GermanPein, Dutchpijn, Afrikaanspyn. See also pine (the verb). Partly displaced native Old Englishsār (whence Modern English sore).
Alternative forms
paine(obsolete)
Pronunciation
enPR: pān, IPA(key): /peɪn/
Rhymes: -eɪn
Homophone: pane
Noun
pain (countable and uncountable, pluralpains)
(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.
(now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
(uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
(countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
(uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
(chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
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
Collocations
Translations
Verb
pain (third-person singular simple presentpains, present participlepaining, simple past and past participlepained)
(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.
(transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
(transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
(intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishpayn(“a kind of pie with a soft crust”), from Old Frenchpain(“bread”).
Noun
pain (pluralpains)
(obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
gammon pain; Spanish pain
References
“pain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“pain”, in The Century Dictionary[…], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
“pain”, in 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
woman
Further reading
Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
Finnish
Noun
pain
inflection of pai:
genitive singular
instructive plural
Anagrams
apin, pani, pian
French
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Frenchpain, from Old Frenchpain, from Latinpānem.