Storey or story?
storey is a noun meaning “A floor or level of a building or ship”; story is a noun meaning “An account of real or fictional events”. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) story is about 69 times as common as storey.
What is the difference between storey and story?
| storey | story | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun, verb, interjection |
| Meaning | A floor or level of a building or ship A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g | An account of real or fictional events A lie, fiction To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about |
| Example | For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely | The book tells the story of two roommates |
| Forms | storeys | stories |
| Pronunciation | /ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/ /ˈstɔː.ɹi/ /ˈstoːɹɪj/ | /ˈstɔː.ɹi/ /ˈstɔ.ɹi/ |
| In writing | 4.1 times per million words | 282 times per million words |
Sources: storey and story in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of storey and story
storey
- 1
A floor or level of a building or ship
For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely
- 2
A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g
The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey
story
- 1
An account of real or fictional events
The book tells the story of two roommates
- 2
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about
- 3
IrelandUsed as a greeting, short for what's the story?
- 4
USAlternative spelling of storey
Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator
- 5
A lie, fiction
You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
- 6
To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website
- 7
UScolloquialA soap opera
What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
- 8
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account
What's the story with him?
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, storey or story?
storey appears 4.1 times per million words; story 282 times per million words.
storey 4.1 times per million wordsstory 282 times per million words
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How many people search storey vs story?
“storey vs story” is searched about 480 times a month on Google and 30 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“story vs storey”, “storey or story”).
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