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Story time or storytime?

story time is a noun meaning “Alternative form of storytime”; storytime is a noun meaning “The time at which a story is told”. story time is written as two words and storytime as one word; they are used differently.

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What is the difference between story time and storytime?

story timestorytime
Part of speechnounnoun
Meaning

Alternative form of storytime

The time at which a story is told

Examplenone recordednone recorded
Formsnonestorytimes
Pronunciationnot recordednot recorded
In writingnot counted (the list counts single words)about once in every 5 million words

Sources: story time and storytime 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 time and storytime

story time

  1. 1

    noun Alternative form of storytime

storytime

  1. 1

    noun The time at which a story is told

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 time or storytime?

story time is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; storytime about once in every 5 million words.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

The words