Wasp vs. Wisp — What's the Difference?

A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as their common ancestor is shared by bees and ants.

A small bunch or bundle, as of straw, hair, or grass.

A white person of Protestant English or other Northern European ancestry, especially one belonging to the American upper class.

One that is thin, frail, or slight

A member of Women's Airforce Service Pilots, organized during World War II as part of the US Army Air Forces to ferry aircraft and to test new aircraft. The organization was disbanded in 1944.

A thin or faint streak or fragment, as of smoke or clouds.

Any of numerous social or solitary hymenopterans of the suborder Apocrita, especially of the family Vespidae, that characteristically have a slender hairless body with a constricted abdomen, two pairs of membranous wings, a mouth adapted for biting or sucking, and in the females an ovipositor sometimes modified as a sting.

A fleeting trace or indication; a hint

Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.

A flock of birds, especially snipe.

(entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).

See ignis fatuus.

Any of the members of the family Vespidae.

To twist into wisps or a wisp.

A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

To drift in wisps

Alternative case form of WASP

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance; any slender, flexible structure or group.

To move like a wasp; to buzz

A whisk, or small broom.

Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects, esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

A will o' the wisp, or ignis fatuus.

A white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination

An immeasurable, indefinable essence of life; soul.

Social or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

A flock of snipe.

(uncountable) A disease affecting the feet of cattle.

(transitive) To brush or dress, as with a wisp.

To rumple.

(intransitive) To produce a wisp, as of smoke.

(transitive) To emit in wisps.

A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance.

A whisk, or small broom.

A Will-o'-the-wisp; an ignis fatuus.

To brush or dress, an with a wisp.

To rumple.

A small tuft or lock;

A small person;

A small bundle of straw or hay

A flock of snipe