Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

my spider sense is tingling

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.07 in modern English

Syllables
my spi-der sense is t-in-gling
IPA
33
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

My intuition (spider sense) tells me that something wrong or dangerous is happening or about to happen.

Colloquial

Etymology

Usage

Questions

What does my spider sense is tingling mean?
My intuition (spider sense) tells me that something wrong or dangerous is happening or about to happen.
Where does my spider sense is tingling come from?
From Marvel Comics' "Spider-Man" comic books, in which the main character (Spider-Man) has a superpower called "spider sense" (sometimes called spidey sense) that would forewarn him about dangerous events. He would often say his spider sense was "tingling" when it was warning him of something.

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