ban: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 5 letter points · starts with B · ends with N
Meaning of ban
verb
- transitive
To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from participation.
Example: Bare feet are banned in this establishment.
- transitive
To anathematize; to pronounce an ecclesiastical curse upon; to place under a ban.
- transitive
To curse; to execrate.
- ambitransitive
To curse; to utter curses or maledictions.
Listed forms: bans, banning, banned.
Source: Wiktionary — ban.
noun
A prohibition.
A public proclamation or edict; also, a summons by public proclamation, and in early use especially a summons to arms.
The gathering of the (French) king’s vassals for war; the whole body of vassals assembled this way, or liable to be summoned; originally the same as arriere-ban, but distinct since the 16th century, following French usage—see arriere-ban.
A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban, such as a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
Listed forms: bans.
Source: Wiktionary — ban.
noun
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Romanian leu.
A subdivision of currency, equal to one hundredth of a Moldovan leu.
Listed forms: bani.
Source: Wiktionary — ban.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for ban.
noun
a decree that prohibits something
noun
an official prohibition or edict against something
noun
a logarithmic unit which measures information or entropy, based on base 10 logarithms and powers of 10.
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verb
forbid the public distribution of (a movie or a newspaper)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is ban in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of ban
B(3) + A(1) + N(1) = 5 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of ban
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from ban
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in ban. Showing up to 24, longest first.