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noosance

/ˈnuː.səns/

noosance is the pronunciation spelling of nuisance.

noosance is the eye dialect spelling of nuisance.

Meaning of nuisance

Noun

nuisance (countable and uncountable, plural nuisances)

  1. A minor annoyance or inconvenience.
    • The neighbor's dog barking throughout the night is a right nuisance - I'm going to complain.
  2. A person or thing causing annoyance or inconvenience.
    • You can be such a nuisance when you don't get your way.
    Synonyms:
    bother, obstacle, pest
  3. Anything harmful or offensive to the community or to a member of it, for which a legal remedy exists.
    • a public nuisance

Forms of noosance

pluralnoosances

Origin of noosance

Respelling representing the pronunciation of nuisance in an accent with yod dropping; for speakers with this kind of accent (such as the majority of American English speakers), this spelling would constitute eye dialect since it is identical to their pronunciation of the standard spelling.

Questions about noosance

What is noosance the pronunciation spelling of?
Noosance is the pronunciation spelling of nuisance.
How do you pronounce noosance?
Noosance is pronounced /ˈnuː.səns/.

Words near noosance in the dictionary

  1. Nooroo
  2. Nooruz
  3. noos
  4. Noosa
  5. Noosa Heads
  6. noosance
  7. noosances
  8. Noosaville
  9. nooscopic
  10. noose
  11. noosed

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: noosance (page history and authors); nuisance (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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