grain: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 6 letter points · starts with G · ends with N
Meaning of grain
noun
- uncountable
The harvested seeds of various grass food crops, especially wheat, maize, rye, barley, and rice.
Example: We stored a thousand tons of grain for the winter.
- uncountable
Similar seeds from any food crop, e.g., buckwheat, amaranth, quinoa.
- countable
A single seed of a food crop, especially a cereal grass crop.
Example: a grain of wheat
- countable, uncountable
The crops from which grain is harvested.
Example: The fields were planted with grain.
Listed forms: grains.
Source: Wiktionary — grain.
verb
- transitive
To feed grain to.
- transitive
To make granular; to form into grains.
- intransitive
To form grains, or to assume a granular form, as the result of crystallization; to granulate.
To texture a surface in imitation of the grain of a substance such as wood.
Listed forms: grains, graining, grained.
Source: Wiktionary — grain.
noun
A branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant; an offshoot.
A tine, prong, or fork. One of the branches of a valley or river.
A tine, prong, or fork. An iron fish spear or harpoon, with a number of points half-barbed inwardly.
A tine, prong, or fork. A blade of a sword, knife, etc.
Listed forms: grains, grane.
Source: Wiktionary — grain.
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 grain.
noun
foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- food grain
- cereal
noun
a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- metric grain
noun
dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
noun
the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a substance)
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is grain in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of grain
G(2) + R(1) + A(1) + I(1) + N(1) = 6 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 grain
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 grain
26 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in grain. Showing up to 24, longest first.