About The Word “Brown”

Everything you wanted to know about the word “brown”, including spelling, parts of speech, “brown” meaning and origins, anagrams, rhyming words, encodings, crossword clues and much more!

How to spell “brown”

Brown is spelled b-r-o-w-n and has 5 letters.


How to pronounce “brown”

IPA pronunciation: /braʊn/

Phonetic pronunciation: brauwn


How many vowels and consonants in “brown”

The word “brown” has 4 consonants and 1 vowels.


How many syllables in “brown”?

There is 1 syllable in the word “brown”.


What type of word is “brown”?

The word "brown" can be a noun, adjective and verb.

Meaning of the word “brown”

Brown is a color that lies between red and yellow on the visible spectrum, often associated with earth, wood, and autumn. It can also be used as an adjective to describe something of a brown color or as a verb to describe the process of cooking food, such as meat or vegetables, until they develop a brown surface.

Origin of the word “brown”

The word 'brown' has its origins in the Old English 'brún', which is derived from the Proto-Germanic word 'brūnaz', and is related to the Old Norse 'brúnn' and the Dutch 'bruin'. These terms can be traced back to the Proto-Indo-European root '*bhrūn-', meaning 'brown' or 'shining'.

Example sentences with the word “brown”

Adjective:
  1. The brown dog happily played fetch with its owner in the park.
  2. She wore a beautiful brown dress to the party, which matched her eyes perfectly.
  3. The leaves on the trees turned brown as autumn approached, creating a picturesque scene.
  4. After spending hours in the sun, his skin had developed a deep brown tan.

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Synonyms for “brown”

Other words for “brown” include tan, chestnut, brunette, auburn, russet, hazel, chocolate, caramel, coffee, mahogany, walnut, beige, amber, cinnamon, cocoa, nut-brown, tawny, toast, umber.

Word families for “brown”

Browned, browner, brownest, browning, brownish, browns, browny

Common misspellings of “brown”

Bruwn

Similar words to “brown”

Baron, biron, byron, blown, boron, bown, bowne, brawn, bryon, bronx, brow, browned, browner, brownie, browns, brows, crown, drown, frown, grown, rowan, rowen, bedrown, broon, browden, rebrown, reown

Scrambled words derived from “brown”

Onbrw, obrwn, rwnob, owbrn, bnwro, bwnro, rbwno, wbrno, wbnro, rwbno, wobnr, nwbro, nwbor, wrobn, nrwbo, wbonr, nrbow, rownb, rnobw, onwrb, wnobr, bnorw, rnwbo, nobwr, rwnbo

Words that rhyme with “brown”

Down, town, clown, gown, crown, frown, drown, renown, uptown, showdown

Crossword clues for “brown”

Painter's shade confuses worn b (5).

Fun facts about the word “brown”

The word “brown” has a Scrabble score of 10 and reads nworb in reverse.


Phonetic spelling of “brown”

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The phonetic alphabet, specifically the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), is a system of notation for the sounds of languages created by linguists. Unlike conventional written alphabets, which vary across languages and can have inconsistent mappings of symbols to sounds, the IPA is designed to provide a consistent and universally understood means of transcribing the sounds of any spoken language.

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“brown” spelled in Morse code

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Morse code is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their new invention, the telegraph, which required a simple way to transmit text messages across long distances.

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ASCII spelling of “brown”

Lowercase word: 98 114 111 119 110

Uppercase word: 66 82 79 87 78

ASCII, which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used by computers and electronic devices to understand and represent text.

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Binary spelling of “brown”

Lowercase word: 1100010 1110010 1101111 1110111 1101110

Uppercase word: 1000010 1010010 1001111 1010111 1001110

Binary encoding is a system that computers and digital devices use to represent and process information. It's based on binary numbers, which are composed only of zeros and ones, known as bits.

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Hexadecimal value of “brown”

Lowercase hexadecimal word: 0x62 0x72 0x6F 0x77 0x6E

Uppercase hexadecimal word: 0x42 0x52 0x4F 0x57 0x4E

Hexadecimal is a number system commonly used in computing as a human-friendly way of representing binary data. Unlike the decimal system, which is base 10 and uses digits from 0 to 9, the hexadecimal system is base 16, using digits from 0 to 9 and letters from A to F to represent the values 10 to 15.

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Decimal spelling of “brown”

Lowercase: 98 114 111 119 110

Upprcase: 66 82 79 87 78

The decimal system, also known as base-10, is the numerical system most commonly used by people in everyday life. It's called "base-10" because it uses ten digits: 0 through 9. Each position in a decimal number represents a power of 10.

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Octal value of “brown”

Lowercase: 142 162 157 167 156

Upprcase: 102 122 117 127 116

Octal is a base-8 number system used in digital computing. Unlike the decimal system which uses ten digits (0-9), and the binary system which uses two (0 and 1), the octal system uses eight digits: 0 through 7. Each position in an octal number represents a power of 8.

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