train: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 5 letter points · starts with T · ends with N
Meaning of train
noun
Elongated or trailing portion. The elongated back portion of a dress or skirt (or an ornamental piece of material added to similar effect), which drags along the ground.
Example: Unfortunately, the leading bridesmaid stepped on the bride's train as they were walking down the aisle.
Elongated or trailing portion. A trail or line of something, especially gunpowder.
Elongated or trailing portion. The tail of a bird.
- poetic
Elongated or trailing portion. The elongated body or form of something narrow and winding, such as the course of a river or the body of a snake.
Listed forms: trains.
Source: Wiktionary — train.
verb
- intransitive
To practice an ability.
Example: She trained seven hours a day to prepare for the Olympics.
- transitive
To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone).
Example: You can't train a pig to write poetry.
- transitive
To teach and form (someone) by practice; to educate (someone). To feed data into an algorithm, usually based on a neural network, to create a machine learning model that can perform some task.
- intransitive
To improve one's fitness.
Example: I trained with weights all winter.
Listed forms: trains, training, trained.
Source: Wiktionary — train.
noun
- obsolete, uncountable
Treachery; deceit.
- countable, obsolete
A trick or stratagem.
- countable, obsolete
A trap for animals, a snare; (figuratively) a trap in general.
- countable, obsolete
A lure; a decoy.
Listed forms: trains.
Source: Wiktionary — train.
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 train.
noun
public transport provided by a line of railway cars coupled together and drawn by a locomotive
- railroad train
noun
a sequentially ordered set of things or events or ideas in which each successive member is related to the preceding
noun
a procession (of wagons or mules or camels) traveling together in single file
- caravan
- wagon train
noun
wheelwork consisting of a connected set of rotating gears by which force is transmitted or motion or torque is changed
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is train in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of train
T(1) + R(1) + A(1) + I(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 train
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from train
29 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in train. Showing up to 24, longest first.