# morn

> English word · Noun · IPA /mɔːn/ · frequency rank #27,222

## Definitions
1. Morning.

## Etymology
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 मरीचि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

## Easily confused with
- **Mr** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mr)
- **Mrs** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mrs)
- **MRI** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mri)
- **MoS** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mos)
- **mou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mou)
- **mot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mot)
- **mow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mow)
- **mun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mun)
- **MSN** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-msn)
- **MRT** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mrt)
- **MRC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mrc)
- **Moz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-moz)
- **MRP** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mrp)
- **most** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-most)
- **move** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-move)
- **moss** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-moss)
- **moth** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-moth)
- **moto** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-moto)
- **mRNA** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mrna)
- **mort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/morn-vs-mort)

## Common misspellings (6)
`mmorn`, `monr`, `mornn`, `morrn`, `mron`, `omrn`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/morn