Sting
Sting is a valid word in word games.
- Tile score
- 6 points
- Letters
- 5
- Syllables
- 1
- How common
- Less common
Meaning of sting
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nounA kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung.
“the sting of death”
Similar: stinging
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nounA mental pain or distress.
“a pang of conscience”
Similar: pang
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nounA painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin.
Similar: bite
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verbCause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort.
“The sun burned his face”
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verbDeliver a sting to.
“A bee stung my arm yesterday”
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verbSaddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous.
“They stuck me with the dinner bill”
Similar: stick
Definitions from WordNet 3.0, Princeton University.
Anagrams of sting
Words inside sting
Words of three letters or more made from its letters, longest first.
- sign5
- sing5
- gist5
- ting5
- tins4
- gins5
- gits5
- nits4
- snit4
- its3
- sin3
- sit3
- tin3
- gin4
- git4
- ins3
- nit3
- tis3
Words that rhyme with sting
- bring
- king
- thing
- ring
- sing
- spring
- string
- swing
- wing
- cling
- ding
- fling
- ling
- ping
- sling
- ting
- wring
- zing
- upswing
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