# train

> English word · Noun · IPA /tɹeɪn/ · frequency rank #1,176

## Definitions
1. Elongated or trailing portion.
2. Elongated or trailing portion.
3. Elongated or trailing portion.
4. Elongated or trailing portion.
5. Elongated or trailing portion.
6. Elongated or trailing portion.
7. Elongated or trailing portion.
8. Elongated or trailing portion.
9. Elongated or trailing portion.
10. Connected sequence of people or things.
11. Connected sequence of people or things.
12. Connected sequence of people or things.
13. Connected sequence of people or things.
14. Connected sequence of people or things.
15. Connected sequence of people or things.
16. Connected sequence of people or things.
17. Connected sequence of people or things.
18. Connected sequence of people or things.
19. Connected sequence of people or things.
20. Connected sequence of people or things.
21. Connected sequence of people or things.
22. Connected sequence of people or things.
23. Connected sequence of people or things.
24. Connected sequence of people or things.

## Etymology
From Middle English trayne (“train”), from Old French train (“a delay, a drawing out”), from traïner (“to pull out, to draw”), from Vulgar Latin *traginō, from *tragō, from Latin trahō (“to pull, to draw”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ- (“to pull, draw, drag”). The verb was derived from the noun in Middle English.
For the meaning to teach compare typologically Russian ната́скивать (natáskivatʹ) (akin to тащи́ть (taščítʹ)).

## Easily confused with
- **tri** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tri)
- **trip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trip)
- **twin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-twin)
- **trap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trap)
- **trio** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trio)
- **trim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trim)
- **tray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tray)
- **tram** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tram)
- **Tran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tran)
- **tris** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tris)
- **Tsai** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tsai)
- **trig** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trig)
- **tuan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-tuan)
- **Trav** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trav)
- **trash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trash)
- **trans** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trans)
- **traps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-traps)
- **trait** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-trait)
- **twain** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-twain)
- **Turin** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/train-vs-turin)

## Common misspellings (7)
`rtain`, `tarin`, `trainn`, `trani`, `trian`, `trrain`, `ttrain`

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