trend: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 6 letter points · starts with T · ends with D
Meaning of trend
noun
An inclination in a particular direction.
Example: Her trend is to dump boyfriends when it gets serious.
A tendency.
Example: There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.
A fad or fashion style.
Example: Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.
An innovation, or a development of innovations.
Example: New trends in AI research are resulting in new opportunities.
Listed forms: trends.
Source: Wiktionary — trend.
verb
- intransitive
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend.
Example: The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.
- transitive
To cause to turn; to bend.
- informal, intransitive
To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
Example: What topics have been trending on social networks this week?
Listed forms: trends, trending, trended.
Source: Wiktionary — trend.
noun
- UK, dated, dialectal, uncountable
Clean wool.
Source: Wiktionary — trend.
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 trend.
noun
a general direction in which something tends to move
noun
general line of orientation
noun
a general tendency to change (as of opinion)
noun
the popular taste at a given time
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
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Letter-value score of trend
T(1) + R(1) + E(1) + N(1) + D(2) = 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 trend
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 trend
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