nuts
/nʌts/noun, adjective, interjection, verb
nuts is spelled N-U-T-S: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, nuts means “The testicles” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in nuts?
| Letters | 4: N-U-T-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 20 times per million words; the 4,302nd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 nuts?
Nuts appears 20 times per million words in written English, the 4,302nd 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 nuts?
- /nʌts/
Nuts has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-nuts.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with nuts?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as nuts.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stun.
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 nuts
- more nuts comparative
- most nuts superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does nuts mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
slangThe testicles.
- 2
An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.
If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.
- 3
plural of nut
adjective
- 1
colloquialInsane, mad.
After living on the island alone for five years, he eventually went nuts.
- 2
colloquialCrazy, mad; unusually pleased or, alternatively, angered.
I just go nuts over her fantastic desserts.
- 3
colloquialVery fond of (on) someone.
He's been nuts on her since the day they met.
interjection
- 1
Indicates annoyance, anger, or disappointment.
Nuts! They didn't even listen to what I had to say.
- 2
Signifies rejection of a proposal or idea, as in forget it, no way, or nothing doing; often followed by to, as nuts to.
They want me to pay $5 for a banana? Nuts to that!
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of nut
noun
- 1
initialism of Nomenclature des unités territoriales statistiques: (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics or Nomenclature of Units for Territorial Statistics - an EU classification system of geographical administrative areas for statistical purposes).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Nuts in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | cinglé, dingue |
| German | verrückt, irre , scharf , wild |
| Spanish | loco, zumbado, sonado, tocado, tocado del ala, majareta |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.