fanned
/fænd/adjective, verb
fanned is an adjective meaning “Having a fan-line appearance” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-N-E-D and has one syllable, and it appears about once in every 2 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does fanned mean?
adjective
- 1
Having a fan-line appearance.
- 2
Brought into a more passionate or extreme state; invigorated.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of fan
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce fanned?
- US /fænd/
- [feənd] ~ [fɛənd]
- British /fand/
Fanned has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Persent101-fanned.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-fanned.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of fanned
- more fanned comparative
- most fanned superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is fanned?
Fanned appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 39,832nd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).