pain: meaning and words from its letters
4 letters · 6 letter points · starts with P · ends with N
Meaning of pain
noun
- countable, uncountable
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
Example: The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
- countable, plural-normally, uncountable
An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt. The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
- uncountable
The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
Example: In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
- countable
An annoying person or thing.
Example: Your mother is a right pain.
Listed forms: pains, paine.
Source: Wiktionary — pain.
verb
- transitive
To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
Example: The wound pained him.
- transitive
To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
Example: It pains me to say that I must let you go.
- India, intransitive
To feel pain; to hurt.
Example: Please help me: I am paining hard.
- obsolete, transitive
To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Listed forms: pains, paining, pained, paine.
Source: Wiktionary — pain.
noun
- obsolete
Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
Listed forms: pains.
Source: Wiktionary — pain.
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 pain.
noun
a symptom of some physical hurt or disorder
noun
emotional distress; a fundamental feeling that people try to avoid
noun
a somatic sensation of acute discomfort
- pain sensation
- painful sensation
noun
something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness
- annoyance
- bother
- botheration
- infliction
- pain in the neck
- pain in the ass
- nuisance
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is pain in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of pain
P(3) + 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 pain
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from pain
11 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in pain. Showing up to 24, longest first.