nerve: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with N · ends with E
Meaning of nerve
noun
A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.
Example: The nerves can be seen through the skin.
A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.
Example: Some plants have ornamental value because of their contrasting nerves.
Courage; boldness; audacity; gall.
Example: He had the nerve to enter my house uninvited.
Patience; stamina; endurance, fortitude.
Example: The web-team found git-sed is really a time and nerve saver when doing mass changes on your repositories
Listed forms: nerves.
Source: Wiktionary — nerve.
verb
- transitive
To give courage.
Example: May their example nerve us to face the enemy.
- transitive
To give strength; to supply energy or vigour.
Example: The liquor nerved up several of the men after their icy march.
- informal, transitive
To perform a neurectomy on (someone or something).
- informal, rare, transitive
To get on (someone’s) nerves; to annoy, irritate, or bother (someone).
Listed forms: nerves, nerving, nerved.
Source: Wiktionary — nerve.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for nerve.
noun
any bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
- nervus
noun
the courage to carry on
noun
impudent aggressiveness
verb
get ready for something difficult or unpleasant
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is nerve in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
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| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of nerve
N(1) + E(1) + R(1) + V(4) + E(1) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of nerve
1 other standard-list word uses exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from nerve
13 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in nerve. Showing up to 24, longest first.