nuisance

Other forms of nuisance

plural

nuisances·

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 nuisance

What does nuisance mean?

nuisance means "(law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nuisance?

nuisance has 2 syllables: nui-sance. The stress falls on "nui". In IPA it is /ˈnusəns/.

What is another word for nuisance?

Close synonyms include pain, pain in the neck. 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 nuisance a common word?

nuisance is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.