- Types Of Speech
- You can use sting as a noun or as a verb in a sentence.
- About Sting
- A 1 syllables noun and 5 letters with the letters g, i, n, s, and t, 4 consonants, 1 vowels and 1 syllables with the middle letter i. Sting starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters s, st, sti, stin, and the ending characters are g, ng, ing, ting, ..
- Definition
- A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- Origin/Roots
- Old English
- School Grade
- Sting is set as a grade five word that starts with s, ends with g, 1 syllables, 1 vowels and 5 letters.
- Scrabble
- Is sting a scrabble word? A 6 point word in scrabble. Check the word games tab below for probability, odds and more.
- Pig Latin
- Sting in Pig Latin is said as "ingstay or ingstway".
- Unigram
- s | t | i | n | g
- Bigram
- st | ti | in | ng
- Trigram
- sti | tin | ing
- Quadrigram
- stin | ting
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a mental pain or distress;
"a pang of conscience" - a kind of pain;
something as sudden and painful as being stung;
"the sting of death";
"he felt the stinging of nettles"
- Verb Examples
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous;
"They stuck me with the dinner bill";
"I was stung with a huge tax bill" - deliver a sting to;
"A bee stung my arm yesterday" - cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging;
"His remark stung her" - cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort;
"The sun burned his face" - cause a stinging pain;
"The needle pricked his skin"
| Synonym | Definition |
|---|---|
| Abhorrent | offensive to the mind "an abhorrent deed" "the obscene massacre at Wounded Knee" "morally repugnant customs" "repulsive behavior" "the most repulsive character in recent novels" |
| Acerbity | a sharp and bitter manner |
| Acidity | the property of being acidic |
| Acridity | the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone |
| Acridness | the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone |
| Acrimony | a sharp and bitter manner |
| Aculeus | a sharp-pointed process especially a sting of a hymenopterous insect |
| Acuminate | make sharp or acute taper make (something) come to a point |
| Acumination | |
| Addict | someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms |
View all cognitive synonyms for Sting
| Anagram | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sting | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
View English words with the unique letters used in sting. Words With The Letters Ginst
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bunco | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
| Con | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
| Defraud | deprive of by deceit "He swindled me out of my inheritance" "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" |
| Diddle | manipulate manually or in one''s mind or imagination "She played nervously with her wedding ring" "Don''t fiddle with the screws" "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" |
| Goldbrick | anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless |
| Gyp | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
| Mulct | money extracted as a penalty |
| Nobble | disable by drugging "nobble the race horses" |
| Rook | common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow |
| Scam | a fraudulent business scheme |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Cheat | a deception for profit to yourself |
| Rig | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme "that book is a fraud" |
| Swindle | the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme "that book is a fraud" |
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sting Operation |
| Name | Male | Female |
|---|---|---|
| Hastings | Yes | No |
| Hasting | No | No |
| Christing | No | Yes |
| Desting | Yes | Yes |
| Word | Scrabble | Words With Friends | Word Chums | 4Pics1Word | Jumble |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Staging (7 letters) | 9 +3 | 12 +4 | staging | ||
| Casting (7 letters) | 10 +4 | 13 +5 | casting | ||
| Stewing (7 letters) | 11 +5 | 13 +5 | stewing | ||
| Basting (7 letters) | 10 +4 | 13 +5 | basting | ||
| Teasing (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | seating | ||
| Sitting (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | sitting | ||
| Testing (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | eginstt | ||
| Sting (5 letters) | 6 | 8 | sting | ||
| Tasting (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | tasting | ||
| SIGINT (6 letters) | 7 +1 | 9 +1 | sigint | ||
| Fasting (7 letters) | 11 +5 | 13 +5 | fasting | ||
| Seating (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | seating | ||
| Sifting (7 letters) | 11 +5 | 13 +5 | fgiinst | ||
| Setting (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | eginstt | ||
| Signet (6 letters) | 7 +1 | 9 +1 | isteng | ||
| Suiting (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 11 +3 | suiting | ||
| Tidings (7 letters) | 9 +3 | 11 +3 | dgiinst | ||
| Ingesta (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | seating | ||
| Sitsang (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | sitsang | ||
| Genista (7 letters) | 8 +2 | 10 +2 | seating | ||
| Wasting (7 letters) | 11 +5 | 13 +5 | wasting | ||
| Ingest (6 letters) | 7 +1 | 9 +1 | isteng | ||
| Stygian (7 letters) | 11 +5 | 12 +4 | stygian | ||
| Stingy (6 letters) | 10 +4 | 11 +3 | stingy | ||
| Staying (7 letters) | 11 +5 | 12 +4 | stygian |
Sting Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With S
- Ends With G
- Spelled With / Contains Letters
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