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"wan" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often pallid (6 letters).
Definitions
become pale and sickly
Word origin
From Middle English wan, wanne (“grey, leaden; pale grey, ashen; blue-black (like a bruise); dim, faint; dark, gloomy”), from Old English wann (“dark, dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *wannaz (“dark, swart”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Old Frisian wann, wonn (“dark”).
Used in a sentence
“Whome when his Lady ſaw, to him ſhe ran / With haſty ioy : to ſee him made her glad, / And ſad to view his viſage pale and wan, / Who earſt in flowres of freſhest youth was clad.”
“She looked wan and worried, and then finally she was not in court one day, and later [...] he learned that she was confined to her room with a bad cold.”
“Big fair wan lovely pale-freckled Kathleen with that buoyant bust gave kindly smiles but mostly she was silent.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Pale and weak”3 letters
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