Scrabble & Words with friends points
- stings is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
- stings is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
- stings is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 9
Definition of stings
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin (noun)
Synonyms
- bite
- insect bite
- a mental pain or distress (noun)
Synonyms
- pang
- operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act (noun)
Examples
- the police conducted a sting operation
Synonyms
- sting operation
- deliver a sting to (verb)
Synonyms
- bite
- prick
- cause a stinging pain (verb)
Synonyms
- prick
- twinge
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort (verb)
Synonyms
- bite
- burn
- a kind of pain; something as sudden and painful as being stung (noun)
Examples
- the sting of death
- he felt the stinging of nettles
Synonyms
- stinging
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property (noun)
Synonyms
- bunco
- bunco game
- bunko
- bunko game
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- confidence trick
- flimflam
- hustle
- saddle with something disagreeable or disadvantageous (verb)
Synonyms
- stick
- cause an emotional pain, as if by stinging (verb)
See definition of stings in Merriam Webster