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nause

/nause/noun

nause is spelled N-A-U-S-E: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nause means “An annoying person, especially one who intentionally annoys others” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of nause is nauses.

How many letters and syllables are in nause?

Letters5: N-A-U-S-E
In writingabout once in every 85 million words; the 293,966th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is nause?

Nause appears about once in every 85 million words in written English, the 293,966th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce nause?

  • /nause/
  • [nause]

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What rhymes with nause?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nause.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: usnea.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of nause

  • nauses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does nause mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    slangAn annoying person, especially one who intentionally annoys others.

    I can't stand her: she's such a nause.

  2. 2

    rain

noun

as nauseæ
  1. 1

    plural of nausea (a form of nausea)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does nause come from?

Back-formation from nausea and/or ad nauseam.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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