1. Home
  2. Scrabble Dictionary. Word Meaning and Points

Wain in Scrabble and Meaning

Lookup Word Points and Definitions

What does wain mean? Is wain a Scrabble word?

How many points in Scrabble is wain worth? wain how many points in Words With Friends? What does wain mean? Get all these answers on this page.

Scrabble® and Words with Friends® points for wain

See how to calculate how many points for wain.

Is wain a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word wain is a Scrabble US word. The word wain is worth 7 points in Scrabble:

W4A1I1N1

Is wain a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word wain is a Scrabble UK word and has 7 points:

W4A1I1N1

Is wain a Words With Friends word?

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

W4A1I1N2

Our tools

Valid words made from Wain

Jump to...

Results

4-letter words (1 found)

WAIN,

3-letter words (7 found)

AIN,ANI,AWN,NAW,WAI,WAN,WIN,

2-letter words (5 found)

AI,AN,AW,IN,NA,

You can make 13 words from wain according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of wain

wain awin wian iwan aiwn iawn wani awni wnai nwai anwi nawi wina iwna wnia nwia inwa niwa ainw ianw aniw naiw inaw niaw

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

Definitions and meaning of wain

wain

Etymology 1

From Middle English wayn, from Old English wæġn, from Proto-West Germanic *wagn, from Proto-Germanic *wagnaz, from Proto-Indo-European *woǵʰnos, from *weǵʰ- (“to bring, transport”). Doublet of wagon, borrowed from Middle Dutch.

Alternative forms

  • wayn (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /weɪn/
  • Rhymes: -eɪn

Homophones: Wayne, wane

Noun

wain (plural wains)

  1. (archaic or literary) A wagon; a four-wheeled cart for hauling loads, usually pulled by horses or oxen.
    "The Hay Wain" is a famous painting by John Constable.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:wain.
Derived terms
Translations

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

  1. (rare, transitive) To carry.

Etymology 2

Verb

wain (third-person singular simple present wains, present participle waining, simple past and past participle wained)

  1. Misspelling of wane.
    • 2008, "From Mowtown to ‘Growtown’? Detroit’s urban farming catches the eye of the BBC", modelD:
      As the auto industry is waining away, the city is looking for something new. [1]

Etymology 3

From wee one.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwiː(ə)n/, /ˈweɪ(ə)n/, [weːn]

Noun

wain (plural wains)

  1. Alternative form of wean
Related terms
  • wean

Anagrams

  • IAWN, inaw, iwan

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine.

Noun

wain

  1. wine

Japanese

Romanization

wain

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ワイン

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

wain

  1. brook; creek; stream

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English wine, from Middle English wyn, win, from Old English wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Italic *wīnom, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

Pronunciation

  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [wɑːinʲ], (enunciated) [wɑ inʲ]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /wæɰjinʲ/
  • Bender phonemes: {wahyin}

Noun

wain

  1. wine

References

  • Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

Medebur

Noun

wain

  1. woman

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

wain

  1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wine.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wajn/

Noun

wain

  1. wine

Descendants

  • → Rotokas: uain

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /wai̯n/

Noun

wain

  1. Soft mutation of gwain.

Mutation


Source: wiktionary.org