warn

Other forms of warn

past tense

warned·

present participle

warning·

third person

warns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about warn

What does warn mean?

warn means "notify of danger, potential harm, or risk". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in warn?

warn has 1 syllable: warn. In IPA it is /ˈwɔɹn/.

What is another word for warn?

Close synonyms include discourage, admonish, monish. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is warn a common word?

warn is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with warn?

3 words rhyme with warn. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.