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morn

/moɹn/noun

morn is a noun meaning “Morning” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled M-O-R-N and has one syllable, and it appears 1.1 times per million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of morn is morns.

What does morn mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Morning.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce morn?

  • UK /mɔːn/
  • US /moɹn/
  • US [mo̞ɹn]

Morn 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)-Vealhurl-morn.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of morn

  • morns plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is morn?

Morn appears 1.1 times per million words in written English, the 27,150th 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).

Words people confuse with morn

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

morn vs mourn40 G

Sounds like: morne, mourn (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: morne.

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

Where does morn come from?

From Middle English morn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko, from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”). See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरी॑चि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).