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done

/dʌn/adjective, verb, interjection, noun

done is spelled D-O-N-E: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 380 times per million words in written English, the 239th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, done means “Having completed or finished an activity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in done?

Letters4: D-O-N-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing380 times per million words; the 239th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Sounds like
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is done?

Done appears 380 times per million words in written English, the 239th 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).

How do you pronounce done?

  • US /dʌn/
  • /dʊn/
  • /dʊn/

As a noun (“Clipping of methadone”): /dəʊn/.

Done 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: En-ca-done.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with done

Sounds like: Dunn, Dunne, dun (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Also written: dhoni.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with done?

9 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as done from its last stressed vowel (/ʌn/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: node, endo, onde.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of done

  • more done comparative
  • most done superlative
  • dyun
  • 'done
  • dones plural

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

What does done mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Having completed or finished an activity.

    He pushed his empty plate away, sighed and pronounced "I am done."

  2. 2

    Completed or finished.

    I'll text you when the movie's done.

  3. 3

    Ready, fully cooked.

    As soon as the potatoes are done we can sit down and eat.

  4. 4

    Being exhausted, used up, or fully spent.

    When the water is done we will only be able to go on for a few days.

  5. 5

    Without hope or prospect of completion or success.

    He is done, after three falls there is no chance he will be able to finish.

  6. 6

    Fashionable, socially acceptable, tasteful.

    I can't believe he just walked up and spoke to her like that, those kind of things just aren't done!

  7. 7

    CanadaScotlandFinished with (something).

    I'm done my homework.

  8. 8

    colloquialPunished.

    Normally, when you pass a law in New Zealand, you can't be done for it if you broke the law in the past.

verb

  1. 1

    past participle of do (a form of do)

    There's nothing to be done.

  2. 2

    nonstandardsimple past of do; did. (a form of do)

    Be Still... and Know That I Am God: Devotions for Every Day of the Year She opened it up to find a quarter and a note scrawled in childish letters that said, "I done it for love."

  3. 3

    Used in forming the perfective aspect; have.

    I woke up and found out she done left.

interjection

  1. 1

    Expresses that a task has been completed.

  2. 2

    Expresses agreement to and conclusion of a proposal, a set of terms, a sale, a request, etc.

noun

  1. 1

    slangClipping of methadone.

    on the done

  2. 2

    Alternative form of dhoni.

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

How do you abbreviate done?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of done: DOD.

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

Done in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfait, prêt, terminé, cuit ((of food) ready, fully cooked), fini (In a state of having completed or finished an…), mort (being exhausted or fully spent)
Germangar, fertig ((of food) ready, fully cooked)
Portuguesepronto ((of food) ready, fully cooked), feito, terminado, acabado (In a state of having completed or finished an…)
Spanishlisto, acabado ((of food) ready, fully cooked), terminado, hecho (In a state of having completed or finished an…)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does done come from?

From Middle English don, idon, ydon, ȝedon, gedon, from Old English dōn, ġedōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dān, from Proto-Germanic *dēnaz (past participle of *dōną (“to do”)). Equivalent to do + -en (past participle ending).

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

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