# pane

> English word · Noun · IPA /peɪn/ · frequency rank #25,874

## Definitions
1. An individual sheet of glass in a window, door, etc.
2. A portion of a user interface that typically makes up part of a larger window and may be docked or snapped into position.
3. A division; a distinct piece or compartment of any surface.
4. A square of a checkered or plaid pattern.
5. One of the openings in a slashed garment, showing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.
6. A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building.
7. A subdivision of an irrigated surface between a feeder and an outlet drain.
8. One of the flat surfaces, or facets, of any object having several sides.
9. One of the eight facets surrounding the table of a brilliant-cut diamond.

## Etymology
From Middle English pane, pan, from Old French pan, from Latin pannus, from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂n- (“fabric”). Doublet of pagne, pan, and pannus.

## Easily confused with
- **PE** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pe)
- **pay** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pay)
- **pen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pen)
- **pin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pin)
- **pat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pat)
- **pie** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pie)
- **par** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-par)
- **pee** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pee)
- **pas** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pas)
- **Poe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-poe)
- **pun** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pun)
- **paw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-paw)
- **png** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-png)
- **pax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pax)
- **pap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pap)
- **Paz** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-paz)
- **pao** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pao)
- **pau** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pau)
- **PNC** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pnc)
- **pon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/pane-vs-pon)

## Common misspellings (5)
`apne`, `paen`, `panne`, `pnae`, `ppane`

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