# stay vs story

> German confusable word pair

## The two words

### stay
*verb · IPA […] · frequency rank #19,048*
bleiben

### story
*noun · IPA [stɔːri] · frequency rank #2,519*
Geschichte, Erzählung, Handlung, Fabel

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/de/vs/stay-vs-story