nettle

1. 1.

   any of numerous plants having stinging hairs that cause skin irritation on contact (especially of the genus Urtica or family Urticaceae)

   Broaderweed

   Narrowerstinging nettleRoman nettlewood nettlerichweedartillery plantfriendship plant

Other forms of nettle

plural

nettles·

past tense

nettled·

present participle

nettling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nettle

What does nettle mean?

nettle means "sting with or as with nettles and cause a stinging pain or sensation". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nettle?

nettle has 2 syllables: net-tle. The stress falls on "net". In IPA it is /ˈnɛtəl/.

What is another word for nettle?

Close synonyms include urticate, annoy, rag, get to, bother. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is nettle a common word?

nettle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.