nonsense: meaning and words from its letters
8 letters · 8 letter points · starts with N · ends with E
Meaning of nonsense
noun
- uncountable, usually
Letters or words, in writing or speech, that have no meaning or pattern or seem to have no meaning.
Example: After my father had a stroke, every time he tried to talk, it sounded like nonsense.
- uncountable, usually
An untrue statement.
- uncountable, usually
That which is silly, illogical and lacks any meaning, reason or value; that which does not make sense.
- uncountable, usually
Something foolish.
Listed forms: nonsenses, nonsence.
Source: Wiktionary — nonsense.
verb
To make nonsense of;
To attempt to dismiss as nonsense; to ignore or belittle the significance of something; to render unimportant or puny.
- intransitive
To joke around, to waste time
Listed forms: nonsenses, nonsensing, nonsensed, nonsence.
Source: Wiktionary — nonsense.
adj
Nonsensical.
Resulting from the substitution of a nucleotide in a sense codon, causing it to become a stop codon (not coding for an amino-acid).
Listed forms: nonsence.
Source: Wiktionary — nonsense.
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 nonsense.
adjective
having no intelligible meaning
noun
a message that seems to convey no meaning
- bunk
- nonsensicality
- meaninglessness
- hokum
noun
ornamental objects of no great value
- folderal
- falderol
- frill
- gimcrackery
- gimcrack
- trumpery
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is nonsense 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 nonsense
N(1) + O(1) + N(1) + S(1) + E(1) + N(1) + S(1) + 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 nonsense
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from nonsense
33 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in nonsense. Showing up to 24, longest first.