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— English words —

• fain adj. (Archaic) Well-pleased, glad.
• fain adj. (Archaic) Satisfied, contented.
• fain adj. (Archaic) Eager, willing or inclined to.
• fain adj. (Archaic) Obliged or compelled to.
• fain adv. (Archaic) With joy; gladly.
• fain adv. (Archaic) By will or choice.
• fain v. (Archaic) To be delighted or glad; to rejoice.
• fain v. (Archaic) To gladden.
• Fain prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Dalmatian
  • fain n. End.
• Hungarian
  • fáin adj. (Folksy, colloquial, slightly humorous) Alternative form of fájin.
  • fáin n. Superessive singular of fái.
• Irish
  • fáin n. Vocative singular of fán (“straying, wandering, vagrancy; turning aside, averting; sparsity”).
  • fáin n. Genitive singular of fán.
• Middle english
  • fain adj. Joyful, happy.
  • fain adj. Willing, eager.
  • fain adj. Pleasing, enjoyable, attractive.
  • fain adv. Gladly, joyfully.
  • fain adv. Willingly, eagerly.
• Norman
  • fain n. (Jersey) hay.
• Old french
  • fain n. Hunger.
• Romanian
  • fain adj. (Transylvania) cool, fine, of good quality.
• Romansch
  • fain n. (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) hay.
• Siar-lak
  • fain n. Woman.

— English word, defined in French —

• fain adj. (Archaïsme) Satisfait.

— English words, defined in Spanish —

• fain adj. Dispuesto.
• fain adj. Obligado.
• fain adj. Feliz, satisfecho.
• fain adv. De buen modo, de buena gana, con gusto.
• fain v. Desear, anhelar.

60 English words from 24 English definitions

Alternative Archaic aside attractive averting choice colloquial compelled contented cool delighted eager eagerly End enjoyable fa␣jin fine Folksy form Genitive glad gladden gladly good happy hay humorous Hunger inclined Jersey jin joy Joyful joyfully Obliged pleased Pleasing Puter quality rejoice Rumantsch Satisfied singular slightly sparsity straying Superessive surname Transylvania turning vagrancy Vocative wandering Well Well-pleased will willing Willingly With Woman

2 English words from 6 foreign definitions

con gusto

1 foreign word from 24 English definitions

Vallader

13 foreign words from 6 foreign definitions

anhelar Archaïsme buen buena con␣gusto Desear Dispuesto Feliz gana modo Obligado Satisfait satisfecho

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

faine fains Fains faint fained fainer faines fainly fainne faints fainty fainest faining fainted fainten fainter faintly faineant fainéant fainites fainness faintens fainters faintest fainteth faintful faintier fainting faintish fainaigue faineance faineancy faineants fainéants faintened fainthood faintiest faintings faintless faintlier faintling faintness faintsome faintward fainaigued fainaiguer fainaigues faintening faintheart faintingly +23 words

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

afaint NFAing NFA'ing sofaing forfaint loofaing solfaing sol-faing unfainly overfaint ultrafaint unfainting roi␣fainéant rois␣fainéants not␣have␣the␣faintest damn␣with␣faint␣praise

One prefix (New word found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

unfain

4 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

Ain AIN ain' FAI

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

IAF nia Nia NIA

6 anagrams (New words found by changing the order of the letters.)

an␣if fina Fina IFNA naif naïf

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

alfin Anafi and␣if bifan Dafni fagin Fagin faine fains Fains faint fajin fa␣jin fakin' Falin Fanti fauni -fiban Filan final Finan Finas Finau finca finna Fiona fitna fixna flain frain Frain ganif hanif Hanif infra infra- Irfan NAAFI NAFDI naifs naïfs Sifan

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

AFI AFN AIF Ain AIN ain' ANF ani Ani ANI FAI fan Fan FAN FIA fin Fin FIN fin. Fin. f***in' FNA IAF Ian -ian IFA if'n Ina INA INF inf. NAF nai NFA NFI nia Nia NIA

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

bain Bain cain Cain -cain- Dain faan FaiF FAIF fail Fail fair fait Fait faix Fann faun fawn Fein f—kin foin gain Gain gain- hain Iain Jain kain Kain lain Lain main Main Nain pain Pain PAIN rain Rain sain Sain tain Tain vain VAIN wain Wain zain Zain

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

Ain AIN ain' FAI fan Fan FAN fin Fin FIN fin. Fin. f***in'

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

fagin Fagin fajin fa␣jin fakin' Falin flain frain Frain

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