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say it: pang
pang is a noun meaning "a sudden sharp feeling". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a sudden sharp feeling
“pangs of regret”
“she felt a stab of excitement”
“twinges of conscience”
a mental pain or distress
“a pang of conscience”
a sharp spasm of pain
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pang come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.