# wynn

> English word · Noun · IPA /wɪn/ · frequency rank #25,260

## Definitions
1. A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.

## Etymology
From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, wyn, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”) (runes were named using words beginning with their sound), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂, from *wenh₁- (“desire, wish, love”).

## Easily confused with
- **WYO** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wynn-vs-wyo)
- **Wynne** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wynn-vs-wynne)
- **wy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wy-vs-wynn)
- **win** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/win-vs-wynn)
- **won** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/won-vs-wynn)
- **wan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wan-vs-wynn)
- **wen** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wen-vs-wynn)
- **wye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wye-vs-wynn)
- **when** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/when-vs-wynn)
- **want** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/want-vs-wynn)
- **went** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/went-vs-wynn)
- **wind** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wind-vs-wynn)
- **wine** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wine-vs-wynn)
- **wins** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wins-vs-wynn)
- **wing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wing-vs-wynn)
- **worn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/worn-vs-wynn)
- **wont** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wont-vs-wynn)
- **warn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/warn-vs-wynn)
- **wang** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wang-vs-wynn)
- **wong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/wong-vs-wynn)

## Common misspellings (5)
`wnyn`, `wwynn`, `wyn`, `wyynn`, `ywnn`

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