sting (5 letters)
sting
6
- Length
- 5 letters
- Scrabble score
- 6 points
- Frequency
- Rare
- Pronunciation
- STIHNG
What it means
- verb — cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- verb — deliver a sting to
- verb — saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous
- verb — cause a stinging pain
- verb — cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging
- noun — a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung
- noun — a mental pain or distress
- noun — a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- noun — a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
- noun — operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act