N

What do we mean by n?

The 14th letter of the modern English alphabet. noun

Any of the speech sounds represented by the letter n. noun

The 14th in a series. noun

Something shaped like the letter N. noun

Neuter abbreviation

Neutron abbreviation

Normal abbreviation

An abbreviation

Of North America, or North American;

Of National Academy, or National Academician;

In microscopy, of numerical aperture (see objective).

An abbreviation of the Latin nota bene, literally, mark or note well—that is, take particular notice. noun

An abbreviation of New Latin. noun

An abbreviation

Of New Style, and

Of New Series.

An abbreviation of New Testament. noun

An abbreviation of northwest.

The fourteenth letter and eleventh consonant in the English alphabet, having a corresponding place also in the alphabets from which ours comes.

The value of the character has been the same through the whole history of its use. It stands for the “dental” nasal, the nasal sound corresponding to d and t, as does m to b and p, and ng to g and k. This sound, namely, implies for its formation the same check or mute-contact as d and t, with sonant vibration of the vocal cords as in d, and further with unclosure of the passage from the mouth into the nose, and nasal resonance there. Among the nasals, it is by far the most common in English pronunciation (more than twice as common as m, and eight times as common as ng). While all the nasals are semivocalic or liquid, n is the only one which (like l, but not more than half as often) is used with vocalic value in syllable-making: namely, in unaccented syllables, where an accompanying vowel, formerly uttered, is now silenced: examples are token, rotten, open, lesson, reason, oven; such form, on an average, about one in eight hundred of English syllables. The sign n has no variety of sounds; but before ch, j, in the same syllable (as in inch, hinge) it takes on a slightly modified—a palatalized—character; and similarly it is gutturalized, or pronounced as ng, before k and g (hard), as in ink, finger; and its digraph ng (see G) is the usual representative of the guttural or back-palatal nasal, which in none of our alphabets has a letter to itself. N is doubled under the same circumstances as other consonants, and in a few words (as kiln, damn, hymn) is silent. In the phonetic history of our family of languages, n is on the whole a constant sound; that is to say, there is no other sound into which it passes on a large scale; but its loss, with accompanying vowel-modification, has been a frequent process.

North

(grammar) noun

(grammar) neuter gender

Normal

Neutral

No

Shortening of and, used in set phrases like rock-n-roll.

Words that are spelled similarly to n:
n.

Words that rhyme with n:
pen, then, again, hen, when, zen, ken, men, den, amen, wren, gen, ten, en, ben, wen, yen, glen, sen, fen, cayenne, penne, ren, madeleine, chen, jen, asean, penn, bullpen, sten, glenn, bren, thegn, len, playpen, comedienne, shen, cheyenne, tien, nguyen, cnn, venn, winter wren, parisienne, benne, biogen, minutemen, chien, tenn, lpn, duchenne, phnom penh, phen, turkmen, airmen, yuen, time and again, adrienne, clergymen, once again, gwen, sven, marsh hen, light pen, tenne, sdn, penh, big ben, behn, henne, now and then, businessmen, fenn, and then, heath hen, henn, middlemen, splen, kren, benn, maori hen, shenzhen, then again, wise men, gunmen, nexgen, almaden, denn, senn, plzen, but then, gren, renne, chretien, antenne, fountain pen, brood hen, guinea hen, handymen, now and again.

Consonant match to n:
on, in, own, erne, an, earn, en, un, inn, urn, ann, anne, ane, aine, ein, ayn, ahn, aune, eigne, oanh, a in.

Words that sound like n:
en, n, -en, enn, enne, enw, ehn, n., esne, enh, -ene, en-, n.t, in, em, an, m, un, inn, ng, eng, emm, emme, inh, -ine, aem, -in, emn, uhn, m., unh, inne, ehm, engh, ynn, in-, ihn, un-, egm, m.t, emw, m.e, unw, on, own, ann, anne, ain, een, ane, oon, ean, awn, onw, oen, ein, ene, oin, aine, aun, oun, ahn, ign, oan, aan, iin, onn, oine, ayn, anh, aune, ohn, eine, eyne, aen, -an, -on, ohne, eene, eyen, onh, uun, eyn, -ane, -ean, akne, ahne, .in, aisne, akn, uyn, an-, eai, eaj, -ing, -ent, -ence, -um, aeh, a n.