Pain
/peɪn/
Scrabble:6 ptsWWF:8 pts4 letters
Definition of Pain
noun
- An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
"I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet."
- The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
"In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life."
- (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
"Your mother is a right pain."
- Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
"You may not leave this room on pain of death."
- (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb
- To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
"The wound pained him."
- To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
"It pains me to say that I must let you go."
- To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
Anagrams of Pain
Related Word Patterns
Letter Values
p3
a1
i1
n1
Total: 6 Scrabble points
Rhymes With Pain
Word Validity & Sources
SOWPODS (International Scrabble): Valid
TWL (US/Canada Scrabble): Valid
Words With Friends: Valid
Last verified: December 2024
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Pain"
Pain is a 4-letter word that scores 6 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words With Friends. The letters in "pain" can be rearranged to form 3 other valid words.
Using "Pain" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "pain" is a low-scoring word.