stories

/[…]/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#10,180

in German word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

stories is aGermannoun. It means: Plural des Substantivs story Pronounced […]. Often confused with störte and Storys.

Key facts for stories
PropertyValue
Headwordstories
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[…]
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,180
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of stories in German word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The German entry for stories is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as […]. Corpus data places it at rank #10,180 in overall German word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Plural des Substantivs story".

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for stories, with forms such as "sotries", "sstories", and "stoires". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "störte", "Storys", "studies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct German form is stories, spelled S-T-O-R-I-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural des Substantivs story

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: sotries,sstories,stoires,storeis,storiess,storise,storries,stroies,sttories,tsories

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for stories

Misspelling Variants of "stories"

sotries7sstories8stoires7storeis7storiess8storise7storries8stroies7
Misspelling Variants of "stories"

Frequency rank: #10,180 in German

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "stories"?
"stories" is spelled S-T-O-R-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is […].
What does "stories" mean?
As a noun, "stories" means: Plural des Substantivs story
What words are commonly confused with "stories"?
"stories" is commonly confused with "störte", "Storys", "studies". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "stories"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "stories" is […]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "stories" come from?
"stories" is a German word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.