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end

/ɛnd/noun, verb

end is spelled E-N-D: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 479 times per million words in written English, the 197th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, end means “The terminal point of something in space or time” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of end is ends.

How many letters and syllables are in end?

Letters3: E-N-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing479 times per million words; the 197th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is end?

End appears 479 times per million words in written English, the 197th 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 end?

  • /ɛnd/
  • /iːnd/
  • /ɪnd/

End 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-uk-to_end.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Naomi_Persephone_Amethyst_(NaomiAmethyst)-end.wav, En-us-end.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with end

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

and vs end0 B

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

What rhymes with end?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as end from its last stressed vowel (/ɛnd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: den.

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 end

  • ends plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • ending participle, present
  • ended participle, past
  • endo-
  • ento-

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

What does end mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The terminal point of something in space or time.

    At the end of the garden there was a beautiful fountain.

  2. 2

    Share of joint responsibility.

    Are you sure they'll honor their end of the deal?

  3. 3

    The cessation of an effort, activity, state, or motion.

    Is there no end to this madness?

  4. 4

    Death.

    He met a terrible end in the jungle.

  5. 5

    The most extreme point of an object, especially one that is longer than it is wide.

    Hold the string at both ends.

  6. 6

    Result.

    The end was that he was thought an archfool.

  7. 7

    A purpose, goal, or aim.

    For what end should I toil?

  8. 8

    One of the two parts of the ground used as a descriptive name for half of the ground.

    The Pavillion End

verb

  1. 1

    To come to an end.

    Is this movie never going to end?

  2. 2

    To conclude; to bring something to an end.

    The orchestra ended with a performance of Dvořák.

  3. 3

    To finish, terminate.

    The referee blew the whistle to end the game.

noun

as End
  1. 1

    A key that when pressed causes the cursor to go to the last character of the current line.

noun

as END
  1. 1

    Acronym of equivalent narcotic depth.

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

End in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfin, bout, extrémité (extreme part), finir, terminer (intransitive: be finished, be terminated), endo- (Translations)
GermanEnde, Schluss (extreme part), enden (intransitive: be finished, be terminated), endo- (Translations), Tod (death), beenden (transitive: finish, terminate (something))
Portuguesefim, cabo, término (extreme part), acabar, terminar, findar (intransitive: be finished, be terminated)
Spanishfin, fin (desus.), lado, parte, extremo, punta (extreme part)

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 end come from?

From Middle English ende, from Old English ende, from Proto-West Germanic *andī, from Proto-Germanic *andijaz (“end”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂entíos (“forehead; front”), from *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”), from *h₂en- (“on, onto”).

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

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