worn
/woɹn/adjective, verb
worn is spelled W-O-R-N: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “warn vs worn” about 50 times a month (Google, United States). As an adjective, worn means “Damaged and shabby as a result of much use” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in worn?
| Letters | 4: W-O-R-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 18 times per million words; the 4,589th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 worn?
Worn appears 18 times per million words in written English, the 4,589th 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 worn?
- UK /wɔːn/
- British /woːn/
- US /woɹn/
Worn has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-worn.wav, En-us-worn.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with worn
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sounds like: warn (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with worn?
10 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as worn from its last stressed vowel (/oɹn/):
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 worn
- more worn comparative
- most worn superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does worn mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Damaged and shabby as a result of much use.
- 2
Worn out; exhausted.
verb
- 1
past participle of wear
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Worn in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense damaged and shabby from too much use:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | gastado, gasto, surrado |
| Spanish | desgastado, desgastada |
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 worn come from?
By analogy to past participles like torn from tear and sworn from swear.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).