Word.ws English Dictionary

Words Ending in WN

There are 127 words ending in WN on Word.ws, from 3 to 11 letters. The most common length is 9 letters (30 words). The words used most often are down, own, known, town and brown.

Meanings from Wiktionary. Not an official Scrabble, Words With Friends or Wordle word list.

3-letter words ending in WN

  • awn6n. The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar...
  • own6adj. Belonging to; possessed; acquired and designated by; proper to...

4-letter words ending in WN

  • bawn9n. A cattle-fort; a building used to shelter cattle.
  • dawn8v. To begin to brighten with daylight.
  • down8adv. From a higher position to a lower one; downwards.
  • fawn10n. A young deer.
  • gawn8n. A small tub or lading vessel.
  • gown8n. A loose, flowing upper garment.
  • hawn10n. A haven or harbour.
  • hewn10adj. Made or crafted by cutting, whittling down.
  • jawn14n. Something; a thing; any object, place, or person.
  • lawn7n. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass...
  • lown7n. Calm, tranquillity.
  • pawn9n. The state of being held as security for a loan, or as a pledge.
  • sawn7adj. That has been subjected to sawing; having a part removed by sawing.
  • sown7n. Cultivated land inhabited by sedentary agriculturalists, in contrast to...
  • tawn7v. To tan, make tawny.
  • town7n. A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities...
  • yawn10v. To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often...

5-letter words ending in WN

  • adown9adv. Down, downward; to or in a lower place.
  • blown10adj. Distended, swollen, or inflated.
  • brawn10n. Strong muscles or lean flesh, especially of the arm, leg or thumb.
  • brown10n. A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.
  • chown13v. To change the owner of (a file or directory).
  • clown10n. A slapstick performance artist often associated with a circus and...
  • crown10n. A royal, imperial or princely headdress; a diadem.
  • drawn9adj. Depleted.
  • drown9v. To die from suffocation while immersed in water or other fluid.
  • flown11adj. Suspended in the flies.
  • frown11n. A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together...
  • grown9adj. Covered by growth; overgrown.
  • known12adj. Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.
  • prawn10n. A crustacean of the suborder Dendrobranchiata.
  • spawn10v. To produce or deposit (eggs) in water.

6-letter words ending in WN

  • bytown14n. A subsidiary or subordinate town.
  • disown10v. To refuse to own, or to refuse to acknowledge one’s own.
  • godown11n. A warehouse.
  • intown9adj. Within a town.
  • renown9n. Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
  • strewn9adj. Covered, scattered or overspread with objects.
  • thrown12adj. Launched by throwing.
  • unhewn12adj. Not hewn.
  • uptown11n. The residential part of a city, which is usually away from the central...

7-letter words ending in WN

  • cowtown15n. A small town, a hick or backwards town.
  • cutdown13n. An emergency medical procedure in which the vein is exposed and a...
  • despawn13v. To be instantaneously destroyed or removed.
  • drydown15n. The phase of a perfume where the top note gives way to the base note.
  • hoedown14n. A type of American folk or square dance.
  • indrawn11adj. Having been drawn in or inward.
  • ingrown11adj. That has grown inwards or abnormally towards (a part of the body).
  • laydown14n. The act of laying something down.
  • lowdown14n. Inside information, the story or truth.
  • midtown13n. The part of a city between uptown and downtown.
  • mixdown20n. The process by which multiple recorded sounds are combined into one or...
  • patdown13n. An act of patting somebody's clothes to check for concealed weapons...
  • paydown16n. The reissue of an unpaid debt for less than the initial issue.
  • predawn13n. The period immediately preceding dawn.
  • regrown11adj. That grew, was lost or destroyed, and regrew.
  • respawn12v. To spawn again.
  • rubdown13n. A quick, energetic massage.
  • rundown11n. A rough outline of a topic or situation.
  • sundown11n. Sunset.
  • tiedown11n. A rope, strap, chain, or line used to secure a load or item.
  • toytown13n. A small town with quaint buildings.
  • undrawn11adj. Not drawn (in various senses).
  • unknown14adj. Not known; unidentified; not well known.

8-letter words ending in WN

  • backdown20n. An act of backing down; a retraction or withdrawal.
  • ballgown14n. A formal gown to be worn by women to balls and similar social events.
  • beatdown14n. A severe beating.
  • blowdown17n. The removal of liquid and solid hydrocarbons from a refinery vessel by...
  • burndown14n. The use of a herbicide to destroy existing foliage.
  • camptown17n. A South Korean town whose livelihood relies on a United States Forces...
  • comedown16n. A sudden drop to a lower status, condition or level; a disappointment...
  • cooldown14n. The rest period between sets or workout sessions, when cooling of body...
  • darktown16n. An African-American area of a city, especially in the American South.
  • downtown15adj. Of, relating to, or situated in the central business district.
  • drawdown16n. The act of reduction or depletion (including through withdrawal or...
  • dropdown15adj. Dropping down from above; being a specific type of selection control...
  • handsewn15adj. Sewn by hand, without the use of a sewing machine.
  • hometown16n. An individual’s place of birth, childhood home, or place of main...
  • lockdown18n. The confinement of people in their own rooms (e.g., in a school) or...
  • markdown18n. A reduction in price in order to stimulate sales.
  • meltdown14n. An act or process of melting.
  • pushdown17adj. Describing a stack in which items are removed in a LIFO manner from the...
  • showdown18n. The final battle between two opponents, in which there can be only one...
  • shutdown15n. The action of stopping operations; a closing, of a computer, business...
  • slapdown14n. An instance of slapping down, especially a humiliation or rejection.
  • slowdown15n. A reduction in speed, or a decrease in the level of production...
  • stepdown14adj. Used to decrease the secondary voltage relative to the primary voltage.
  • takedown16n. A taking down: the arrest of a suspect by a police officer.
  • teardown12n. A well-maintained structure purchased and torn down to make way for a...
  • turndown12n. A downturn.
  • washdown18n. A thorough washing from top to bottom.

9-letter words ending in WN

  • breakdown19n. A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
  • brokedown19adj. Broken; not working properly.
  • clampdown19n. A sudden repressive or punitive restriction or control.
  • climbdown19n. A retreat or withdrawal from an earlier position or opinion; a backdown.
  • closedown15n. The point when a radio or television station shuts down transmission...
  • countdown15n. A count backward in fixed units to the time of some event, especially...
  • crackdown21n. Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.
  • crosstown14adj. Extending across a city or town.
  • eiderdown14n. The down of the eider duck, used for stuffing pillows and quilts.
  • foreknown19adj. Anticipated or predicted.
  • frogspawn18n. A gelatinous mass of frogs' eggs, laid in ponds and ditches.
  • handblown18adj. Blown by hand, without the use of machinery.
  • hellspawn17n. A creature or creatures from hell.
  • homegrown18adj. Raised or cultivated at home, on one's own land, or in one's own...
  • knockdown23n. An act of knocking down or the condition of being knocked down.
  • mindblown17adj. Having had one's mind blown.
  • nightgown17n. A long loose robe worn mainly by women for sleeping in.
  • overblown17adj. Of exaggerated importance; too heavily emphasized, hyped, etc.
  • overdrawn16adj. Portrayed in an overstated or exaggerated manner.
  • overgrown16adj. Having large numbers of plants which have become too big, and are hence...
  • shakedown20n. Extortion, especially through blackmail.
  • shootdown16n. The shooting down of an aircraft, satellite, etc.
  • smackdown21n. A physical or emotional confrontation; a battle, a fight; also, a...
  • staredown13n. A game or confrontation in which two individuals intently gaze at each...
  • throwdown19n. A fall, indicating defeat.
  • touchdown18n. A six-point score occurring when the ball enters possession of a team's...
  • unbeknown18adj. Not beknown.
  • windblown18adj. Growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.
  • withdrawn19adj. Removed from circulation.
  • writedown16n. An adjustment; a precise amount adjusted by an act of writing down or...

10-letter words ending in WN

  • churchtown23n. In the southwest of England, a hamlet or village distinguished by being...
  • splashdown19n. The act of landing in water, as by a space capsule or rollercoaster.
  • tumbledown18adj. In disrepair; poorly maintained.

11-letter words ending in WN

  • thistledown18n. The soft, feathery pappus attached to the seeds of a thistle.
207 rare words ending in WN

Questions about these words

How many words ending in WN are there?
Word.ws lists 127 words ending in WN, plus 207 rare ones.
What are common words ending in WN?
down, own, known, town, brown, grown, crown and drawn.
Which of the words ending in WN has the highest letter score?
knockdown scores 23 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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