stadium
sta·di·um/ˈsteɪ.di.əm/noun
stadium is spelled S-T-A-D-I-U-M: 7 letters and 3 syllables (sta·di·um). It appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stadium means “A venue where sporting events are held” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stadium is stadiums or stadia.
How many letters and syllables are in stadium?
| Letters | 7: S-T-A-D-I-U-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3: sta·di·um |
| In writing | 43 times per million words; the 2,339th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How common is stadium?
Stadium appears 43 times per million words in written English, the 2,339th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce stadium?
- /ˈsteɪ.di.əm/
Stadium has 3 syllables, split sta·di·um in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-stadium.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stadium
- stadiums plural
- stadia plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stadium mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A venue where sporting events are held.
He is going for a cricket match at the stadium.
- 2
An Ancient Greek racecourse, especially, the Olympic course for foot races.
- 3
Synonym of stadion, a Greek unit of length equivalent to about 185 m.
- 4
A kind of telemeter for measuring the distance of an object of known dimensions, by observing the angle it subtends.
- 5
A graduated rod used to measure the distance of the place where it stands from an instrument having a telescope, by observing the number of the graduations of the rod that are seen between certain parallel wires (stadia wires) in the field of view of the telescope.
- 6
A life stage of an organism.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stadium in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense venue where sporting events are held:
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does stadium come from?
From Latin stadium (“a measure of length, a race course”) (commonly one-eighth of a Roman mile; translated in early English Bibles by furlong), from Ancient Greek στάδιον (stádion, “a measure of length, a running track”), especially the track at Olympia, which was one stadium in length. The Greek word may literally mean "fixed standard of length" (from στάδιος (stádios, “firm, fixed”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-, whence also stand and Latin stare). Doublet of stade, stadion, and estadio. Displaced native Old English spyrd.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).