gone: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 5 letter points · starts with G · ends with E
Meaning of gone
verb
- form-of, participle, past
past participle of go
Base or related entry: go.
Source: Wiktionary — gone.
adj
Away, having left.
Example: Are they gone already?
No longer existing, having passed.
Example: The days of my youth are gone.
Used up.
Example: I'm afraid all the coffee is gone.
Broken, failed.
Example: The bulb is gone. Can you put a new one in?
Listed forms: goner, gonest.
Source: Wiktionary — gone.
prep
- UK, informal
Past, after, later than (a time).
Example: You'd better hurry up, it's gone four o'clock.
Source: Wiktionary — gone.
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 gone.
adjective
destroyed or killed
- done for
- kaput
adjective
dead
adjective
well in the past; former
adjective
stupefied or excited by a chemical substance (especially alcohol)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is gone in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of gone
G(2) + O(1) + N(1) + E(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 gone
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 gone
12 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in gone. Showing up to 24, longest first.