# warm

> English word · Adjective · IPA /wɔːm/ · frequency rank #2,025

## Definitions
1. Of a somewhat high temperature, often but not always connoting that the high temperature is pleasant rather than uncomfortable.
2. Friendly and with affection.
3. Having a color in the part of the visible electromagnetic spectrum between red and yellow-green.
4. Close to a goal or correct answer.
5. Fresh, of a scent; still able to be traced.
6. Communicating a sense of comfort, ease, or pleasantness.
7. Ardent, zealous.
8. Well off as to property, or in good circumstances; prosperous.
9. Requiring arduous effort.

## Etymology
From Middle English warm, werm, from Old English wearm, from Proto-West Germanic *warm, from Proto-Germanic *warmaz, either from Proto-Indo-European *wór-mo-s, from *wer- (“to burn”), or Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰor-mo-s, from the root *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”). Cognate with West Frisian waarm, Saterland Frisian woorm, Dutch warm, German warm, Swedish varm, Icelandic varmur, Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós) (in which case perhaps a distant doublet of thermos), Latin formus, Sanskrit घर्म (gharmá), or alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”), related to Hittite 𒉿𒊏𒀀𒉌 (warāni, “to burn”), Armenian վառել (vaṙel, “to burn, heat, warm”), Old Church Slavonic варити (variti, “to cook, boil”).

## Easily confused with
- **was** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-was)
- **way** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-way)
- **wax** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wax)
- **wat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wat)
- **wer** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wer)
- **wry** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wry)
- **wor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wor)
- **WAV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wav)
- **wim** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wim)
- **were** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-were)
- **work** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-work)
- **word** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-word)
- **ways** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-ways)
- **wear** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wear)
- **whom** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-whom)
- **wave** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wave)
- **wars** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wars)
- **wash** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wash)
- **wire** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wire)
- **wore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warm-vs-wore)

## Common misspellings (6)
`awrm`, `wamr`, `warmm`, `warrm`, `wram`, `wwarm`

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