wing-nut

Questions about wing-nut

What does wing-nut mean?

wing-nut means "any tree of the genus Pterocarya; fruit is a small winged nutlet; Caucasus to southeastern Asia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wing-nut?

wing-nut has 2 syllables and divides as wing--nut under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wing-nut?

Close synonyms include wing nut, wing nut, wing screw, butterfly nut, thumbnut. 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 wing-nut a common word?

wing-nut is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.