Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

nuts

/nʌts/

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English

Syllables: nuts
IPA: /nʌts/

4

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

1

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

Slang

noun

An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.

adj

Colloquial

adj

Crazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.

Colloquial

adj

Very fond of (on) someone.

Colloquial

intj

Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.

intj

Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to, as nuts to.

Example Sentences

"If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades."
"If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace."
"After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts."
"Are you nuts?"
"Seriously? This is nuts!"
"I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts."

Usage

Inflected Forms

more nuts (comparative) most nuts (superlative)

Derived Forms

fucknuts fuzznuts numbnuts shitnuts nutted bugnuts nutso nutsy nutzoid

Phrases

drive someone nuts go nuts nuts to dead-nuts

Frequently Paired Words

dead-nuts

Synonyms

nutty balmy barmy bats batty bonkers buggy cracked crackers daft dotty fruity

Rhymes With

what's cuts guts butts shuts huts sluts lutz struts buts putts mutts

Questions

How do you pronounce nuts?: The recorded pronunciation is /nʌts/.
What does nuts mean?: plural of nut

How to pronounce nuts

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