brown: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 10 letter points · starts with B · ends with N
Meaning of brown
noun
- countable, uncountable
A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
Example: The browns and greens in this painting give it a nice woodsy feel.
- countable
One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
- uncountable
Black tar heroin.
- countable, uncountable
A brown horse or other animal.
Listed forms: browns, broon.
Source: Wiktionary — brown.
adj
Having a brown color/colour.
- US, capitalized, sometimes
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. Latino/Latin American
- US, broadly, capitalized, sometimes
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. of color.
- capitalized, sometimes
Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. South Asian or sometimes Middle Eastern or North African
Listed forms: browner, brownest, broon.
Source: Wiktionary — brown.
verb
- intransitive
To become brown.
Example: Fry the onions until they brown.
- childish
Synonym of poop (“to defecate”).
Example: I've just browned myself.
- transitive
To cook something until it becomes brown.
- intransitive, transitive
To tan.
Example: Light-skinned people tend to brown when exposed to the sun.
Listed forms: browns, browning, browned, broon.
Source: Wiktionary — brown.
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 brown.
adjective
of a color similar to that of wood or earth
- brownish
- chocolate-brown
- dark-brown
adjective
(of skin) deeply suntanned
noun
an orange of low brightness and saturation
verb
make brown in color
- embrown
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is brown in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of brown
B(3) + R(1) + O(1) + W(4) + N(1) = 10 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 brown
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from brown
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