Story-telling or storytelling?
story-telling is a noun meaning “Alternative form of storytelling”; storytelling is a noun meaning “The act and skills of presenting stories and tales”. story-telling is written with a hyphen and storytelling as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between story-telling and storytelling?
| story-telling | storytelling | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of storytelling | The act and skills of presenting stories and tales |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | story-tellings | storytellings |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 4.6 times per million words |
Sources: story-telling and storytelling 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 story-telling and storytelling
story-telling
- 1
Alternative form of storytelling
storytelling
- 1
The act and skills of presenting stories and tales
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, story-telling or storytelling?
story-telling is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; storytelling 4.6 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).