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Yes. The word sting is a Scrabble US word. The word sting is worth 6 points in Scrabble:

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5-letter words (2 found)

STING,TINGS,

4-letter words (12 found)

GINS,GIST,GITS,INGS,NITS,SIGN,SING,SNIG,SNIT,TIGS,TING,TINS,

3-letter words (14 found)

GIN,GIS,GIT,ING,INS,ITS,NIS,NIT,SIG,SIN,SIT,TIG,TIN,TIS,

2-letter words (7 found)

GI,IN,IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,

You can make 35 words from sting according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of sting

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Definitions and meaning of sting

sting

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stɪŋ/
  • Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Etymology 1

From Middle English stynge, sting, stenge, from Old English sting, stinċġ (“a sting, stab, thrust made with a pointed instrument; the wound made by a stab or sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stangiz.

Noun

sting (plural stings)

  1. A bump left on the skin after having been stung.
  2. A puncture made by an insect or arachnid in an attack, usually including the injection of venom.
  3. A pointed portion of an insect or arachnid used for attack.
    Synonym: stinger
  4. A sharp, localised pain primarily on the epidermis
  5. (botany) A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secretes an acrid fluid, as in nettles.
  6. The thrust of a sting into the flesh; the act of stinging; a wound inflicted by stinging.
  7. (law enforcement) A police operation in which the police pretend to be criminals in order to catch a criminal.
  9. A short percussive phrase played by a drummer to accent the punchline in a comedy show.
  10. A brief sequence of music used in films, TV, and video games as a form of scenic punctuation or to identify the broadcasting station.
  11. A support for a wind tunnel model which extends parallel to the air flow.
  12. (figurative) The harmful or painful part of something.
  13. A goad; incitement.
  14. The concluding point of an epigram or other sarcastic saying.
Synonyms
  • (pointed portion of an insect or arachnid): stinger
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English stingen, from Old English stingan, from Proto-Germanic *stinganą. Compare Swedish and Icelandic stinga.

Verb

sting (third-person singular simple present stings, present participle stinging, simple past stung or (rare, dialectal) stang, past participle stung)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) To hurt, usually by introducing poison or a sharp point, or both.
  2. (transitive, of an insect or arachnid) To puncture with the stinger.
  3. (intransitive, sometimes figurative) To hurt, to be in pain (physically or emotionally).
  4. (figurative) To cause harm or pain to.
Derived terms
Translations

Anagrams

  • GTINs, Tings, gnits, tings

Middle English

Noun

sting

  1. Alternative form of stynge

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From the verb stinge.

Noun

sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga or stingene)

  1. a stitch (in sewing and surgery)
  2. stitch (pain in the side)

References

  • “sting” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From the verb stinge.

Noun

sting m (definite singular stingen, indefinite plural stingar or stinger, definite plural stingane or stingene)

  1. stitch (pain in the side)

Noun

sting n (definite singular stinget, indefinite plural sting, definite plural stinga)

  1. a stitch (in sewing and surgery)

References

  • “sting” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stangiz; akin to stingan.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /stinɡ/, [stiŋɡ]

Noun

sting m

  1. sting, stinging (of an animal)

Descendants

  • Middle English: stynge, stenge, sting, steng
    • English: sting
    • Scots: sting

Romanian

Verb

sting

  1. inflection of stinge:
    1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. third-person plural present indicative

Swedish

Pronunciation

Verb

sting

  1. imperative of stinga

Anagrams

  • tings

Source: wiktionary.org