pan: meaning and words from its letters
3 letters · 5 letter points · starts with P · ends with N
Meaning of pan
noun
A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
The contents of such a receptacle.
A cylindrical receptacle about as tall as it is wide, with one long handle, usually made of metal, used for cooking in the home.
- Ireland
A deep plastic receptacle, used for washing or food preparation; a basin.
Listed forms: pans, pen.
Source: Wiktionary — pan.
verb
- transitive
To wash in a pan (of earth, sand etc. when searching for gold).
- transitive
To disparage; to belittle; to put down; to harshly criticize, especially a work (book, movie, etc.)
- intransitive
To turn out well; to be successful.
- informal, transitive
To beat one's opposition convincingly.
Listed forms: pans, panning, panned.
Source: Wiktionary — pan.
verb
- intransitive
(of a camera) To turn horizontally.
- intransitive
To move the camera lens angle while continuing to expose the film, enabling a contiguous view and enrichment of context. In still-photography large-group portraits the film usually remains on a horizontal fixed plane as the lens and/or the film holder moves to expose the film laterally. The resulting image may extend a short distance laterally or as great as 360° from the point where the film first began to be exposed.
- intransitive
To shift an image relative to the display window without changing the viewing scale.
- transitive
To spread a sound signal into a new stereo or multichannel sound field, typically giving the impression that it is moving across the sound stage.
Listed forms: pans, panning, panned.
Source: Wiktionary — pan.
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 pan.
noun
cooking utensil consisting of a wide metal vessel
- cooking pan
verb
wash dirt in a pan to separate out the precious minerals
- pan out
- pan off
verb
express a totally negative opinion of
- tear apart
- trash
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is pan in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of pan
P(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 pan
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from pan
2 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in pan. Showing up to 24, longest first.