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— English words —

• nun n. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit…
• nun n. (By extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
• nun n. (Archaic, Britain, slang) A prostitute.
• nun n. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
• nun n. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• nun pron. Pronunciation spelling of nothing.
• Nun prop.n. (Very rare) A male given name from Hebrew.
• Nun prop.n. The languages of the Bamun people of western Cameroon.
• Nun. prop.n. (Law) Abbreviation of Nunavut.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Asturian
  • nun adv. Not, no (used to make negatives).
  • nun cont. In a/an (contraction of en + un).
  • ñun adv. Alternative form of nun.
• Bambara
  • nun n. (Anatomy) nose.
• Chiricahua
  • nun n. Grave, burial place.
  • nun n. Cache.
• Esperanto
  • nun adv. Now.
• Fala
  • nun adv. Alternative form of non (“no, not”).
• Finnish
  • nun n. Nun (fourteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad).
• Galician
  • nun cont. In a, in one.
• Hausa
  • nun n. Nun (letter of the Arabic alphabet).
• Ido
  • nun adv. Now, at present, at this time.
• Lombard
  • nun pron. We.
• Mandarin
  • nun rom. Nonstandard spelling of nún.
  • nun rom. Nonstandard spelling of nùn.
  • nún rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 黁.
  • nùn rom. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 媆.
• Mirandese - Sicilian
  • nun adv. Not.
• Old french
  • nun n. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of nom.
  • nun adj. Alternative form of negun.
  • nun pron. Alternative form of negun.
• Rohingya
  • nun n. Salt.
• Romanian
  • nun n. The godfather at a wedding.
• Tat
  • nun n. Bread.
• Turkish
  • nun n. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ن.
• Volapük
  • nun n. Message.
• Wolof
  • nun pron. We (first-person plural subject pronoun).
  • ñun pron. Alternative form of nun.
• Zazaki
  • nun n. Alternative form of nan.

— English words, defined in German —

• nun S. Klosterfrau, Klosterschwester, Nonne.
• nun S. Selten, veraltet: Blaumeise.

— English word, defined in Dutch —

• nun n. (Religie) non, vrouwelijke monnik.

— English word, defined in French —

• nun n. (Religion) Religieuse, sœur, nonne, moniale.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• nun s. Religión. Monja.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• nun s. (Religião e cristianismo) freira, irmã.
• nun s. (Linguística) nune, nome da décima quarta letra do alfabeto hebraico (ן ,נ).

— English word, defined in Italian —

• nun s. Monaca.

— In German —

• nun Adv. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt, zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt, in dem Moment.
• nun Adv. In unmittelbarere Zukunft.
• nun Adv. In unmittelbarer Vergangenheit.
• nun Adv. Fortführung der Rede, zeitliche Folge.
• nun Adv. Im Satzanfang, elliptisch, zur Bezeichnung eines Ruhepunktes…
• nun Adv. Im Satzanfang, zur Einleitung einer Frage.

— In French —

• nun n.m. Autre orthographe de noun (נ, forme finale ן), quatorzième…
• nūn n.m. Variante de noun.

— In Spanish —

• nun s. Decimocuarta letra del alfabeto hebreo.

— In Italian —

• Nun n.prop. (Toponimo) città del Marocco.

116 English words from 38 English definitions

Abbreviation abjad abjads alphabet alphabets Alternative Anatomy and Anglo Anglo-Norman Arabic Arabic␣alphabet Aramaic Archaic at␣present Bread Britain burial By␣extension Cache Cameroon certain Christian community confessions contraction extension feathers female first first␣person first-person␣plural form fourteenth from given given␣name godfather Grave habit Hanyu Hanyu␣Pinyin head Hebrew hood in␣one its kind kind␣of languages Law letter like live make male many member Message name nan negatives nom non Nonstandard Norman Northwest nose not nothing Now nun Nunavut of␣a one other others people person Phoenician pigeon Pinyin place plural present pronoun Pronunciation Pronunciation␣spelling prostitute rare reading religious Salt scripts Semitic similar slang spelling subject subject␣pronoun Syriac the this this␣time time used used␣to usually Very vows wear wedding western who with women

15 English words from 18 foreign definitions

alfabeto décima del dem der finale forme Moment nome non noun quarta Rede Religieuse Religion

47 foreign words from 18 foreign definitions

alfabeto␣hebraico Autre Bezeichnung Blaumeise città cristianismo Decimocuarta diesem einer eines Einleitung elliptisch Folge Frage freira hebraico hebreo irmã jetzigen letra Linguística Marocco Monaca moniale Monja monnik nonne nune orthographe quatorzième Religião Religie Religión Satzanfang Selten sœur Toponimo unmittelbarer unmittelbarere Variante veraltet Vergangenheit zeitliche Zeitpunkt Zukunft zum zur

149 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

Nuna Nunn nuns nunu Nunan Nunda Nunez Nunga Nunki nunly Nunns Ñuñoa nunty nunus nunya Nunans nunate nunchi nuncii nuncio Nuncio nuncle Nungas Nunica nunlet Nunley Nunney nuntee nunatak nunataq nunated nunates Nunavik Nunavut nunbird nun␣buoy nunchuk nuncial nuncios Nuncios nuncius nuncled nuncles nundine Nungali Nunhead nunhood nunight nunlets Nunleys +99 words

385 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

Anunna canuns dununs ex␣nunc Genung inunct kanuns panung qanuns Sununu unnuns Genungs inuncts nonunit non-unit Ordnung panungs Qanungo Sununus Unungun Ainuness Anunnaki Anunnaku conundra Denunzio Eshnunna go␣in␣unto green␣'uns inuncted inundant inundate in␣unison moon␣unit nanu-nanu nonunary nonunion non-union nonunits non-units nonunity Penunuri qanunist quidnunc Rupununi unnunned ununbium ununique ununited conundrum Denunzios +335 words

10 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

Bunun canun dunun kanun qanun unnun Iranun green␣'un Subanun Covent␣Garden␣nun

3 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

nun Nun Nun.

16 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

bunn Bunn Dunn Gunn Innu Lunn Munn non-U noun Nuna Nunn nuns nunu nurn runn sunn

15 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

nn Nn NN nn. N.N. nu Nu NU un Un UN 'un un- -un- U.N.

77 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

bun Bun BUN cun dun Dun DUN fun gun Gun hun Hun jun Jun Jun. kun Kun -kun lun LUN mun Mun MUN Mun. nan Nan NaN NAN NBN NDN nen Nen NGN NHN nin Nin NIN NMN NNN non non- Non. NPN nrn NSN nub nuc NUC nug nuh NUI num num. Num. Nuo nup N-up nur Nur nus NUS nut Nut NUT NUV !'O!uŋ pun Pun run sun Sun Sun. tun Tun xun Yun zun

15 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

nn Nn NN nn. N.N. nu Nu NU un Un UN 'un un- -un- U.N.

3 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

noun Nunn nurn

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