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3-Letter Words Ending in N

There are 98 three-letter words ending in N on Word.ws, from ain to zun. The most common are can, man, own, men and run.

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All 98 three-letter words ending in N

A

  • ain3det. Own; belonging to one.
  • ann3n. An annate.
  • awn6n. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar...
  • ayn6n. Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in...

B

  • ban5v. To prohibit; to interdict; to proscribe; to forbid or block from...
  • ben5prep. In, into.
  • bin5n. A box, frame, crib, or enclosed place, used as a storage container.
  • bun5n. A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.

C

  • can5v. To know how to.
  • con5n. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its...
  • cun5n. A traditional Chinese unit of length, originally the width of a...

D

  • dan4n. A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.
  • den4n. A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks...
  • din4n. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
  • don4n. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
  • dtn4adj. Duplex, tray, network: In relation to the selling of laser printers, a...
  • dun4n. A brownish grey colour.

E

  • ean3v. To bring forth young; to yean.
  • een3adv. Even.
  • eon3n. Eternity, the duration of the universe.
  • ern3v. To run; flow.

F

  • fan6n. A hand-held device consisting of concertinaed material, or slats of...
  • fen6n. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below...
  • fin6n. One of the appendages of a fish, used to propel itself and to...
  • fon6n. A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon.
  • fun6n. Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.

G

  • gan4v. To go.
  • gen4n. Information.
  • gin4n. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented...
  • gon4n. One hundredth of a right angle: a gradian.
  • gun4n. A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning...

H

  • han6n. Sorrowful resentment, as a part of the Korean cultural identity.
  • hen6n. A female chicken (Gallus gallus), especially a sexually mature one kept...
  • hin6n. A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
  • hnn6interj. Indicating thinking or pondering.
  • hon6n. A term of endearment; Honey, sweetheart.
  • hun6n. A woman perceived as basic, brash, working class and fond of alcohol.

I

  • ibn5n. Son of.
  • inn3n. Any establishment where travellers can procure lodging, food, and drink.
  • ion3n. An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge, such as the...

J

  • jin10n. A portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a...
  • jun10n. A monetary unit of North Korea and formerly of South Korea, equal to...

K

  • kan7n. A Japanese unit of weight, approximately 3.75 kg or 8.267 lb.
  • ken7v. To know, perceive or understand.
  • kin7n. Race; family; breed; kind.
  • kun7n. In the Japanese language, the pronunciation, or reading, of a kanji...

L

  • lin3v. To desist, to stop, to cease.

M

  • man5n. An adult male human.
  • men5n. (The) people, humanity, man(kind).
  • min5n. Minoxidil.
  • mon5n. The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.
  • mun5v. Must.
  • mxn12n. Feminist spelling of man.
  • myn8n. Feminist spelling of men (plural of man).

N

  • nan3n. Synonym of nursemaid.
  • nen3pron. None.
  • nin3n. Affectionate name for a grandmother.
  • non3n. A non-Muslim citizen.
  • nun3n. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by...

O

  • oon3n. An oven.
  • orn3v. To ornament; to adorn.
  • own6adj. Belonging to; possessed; acquired and designated by; proper to...

P

  • pan5n. A wide, flat receptacle used around the house, especially for cooking.
  • pen5n. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals...
  • pin5n. A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one...
  • pon5n. A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded...
  • pun5v. To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Q

  • qin12n. Any of several traditional Chinese musical instruments, most commonly...

R

  • ran3n. Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
  • ren3n. A kidney.
  • rin3v. To run.
  • ron3n. Heroin.
  • run3v. To move forward quickly upon two feet by alternately making a short...

S

  • san3n. An Ancient Greek letter representing /s/ (uppercase Ϻ, lowercase ϻ)...
  • sen3n. Self.
  • sin3n. A violation of divine will or religious law.
  • son3n. One's male offspring.
  • sun3n. A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
  • syn6adj. That has a torsion angle between 0° and 90°.

T

  • tan3n. A light, brown-like colour.
  • ten3n. A set or group with ten elements.
  • tin3n. A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with...
  • ton3n. The short ton of 2000 pounds (about 907 kg), 20 hundredweights of 100...
  • tun3n. A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or...

U

  • urn3n. A vase with a footed base.

V

  • van6n. A covered motor vehicle used to carry goods or (normally less than ten)...

W

  • wan6adj. Pale, sickly-looking.
  • wen6n. A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
  • win6v. To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now...
  • won6n. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in...

X

  • xun10n. A clay or ceramic globular vessel flute originating in China.

Y

  • yan6det. Synonym of yonder.
  • yen6n. The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100...
  • yin6n. A principle in Chinese and related East Asian philosophies associated...
  • yon6det. Distant, but within sight; (that thing) just over there.

Z

  • zen12n. Synonym of enlightenment, particularly the kind acquired through Zen...
  • zin12n. Zinfandel wine.
  • zun12n. A type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or...
1 rare three-letter words ending in N

Questions about these words

How many three-letter words ending in N are there?
Word.ws lists 98 three-letter words ending in N, plus 1 rare ones.
What are common three-letter words ending in N?
can, man, own, men, run, win, fun and non.
Which of the three-letter words ending in N has the highest letter score?
zun scores 12 points with the standard letter tile values.

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Word lists and meanings adapted from the Wiktionary entry of each word. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out names, abbreviations, misspellings and offensive words, and ordered the most common words by how often they appear in English (wordfreq). Meanings from Wiktionary; this is not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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