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stand

UK /ˈstænd/verb, noun

stand is spelled S-T-A-N-D: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 138 times per million words in written English, the 756th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, stand means “To support oneself on the feet in an erect position” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stand?

Letters5: S-T-A-N-D
Syllables1
In writing138 times per million words; the 756th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is stand?

Stand appears 138 times per million words in written English, the 756th 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 stand?

  • UK /ˈstænd/
  • UK [ˈstænd]
  • British /ˈstand/

Stand has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-stand.wav, En-us-stand.ogg, En-au-stand.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with stand?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stand from its last stressed vowel (/ænd/, British pronunciation):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of stand

  • stands present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • standing participle, present
  • stood past, participle, singular, he/she/it, plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stand mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To support oneself on the feet in an erect position.

    Here I stand, wondering what to do next.

  2. 2

    To rise to one’s feet; to stand up.

    Stand up, walk to the refrigerator, and get your own snack.

  3. 3

    To remain motionless.

    Do not leave your car standing in the road.

  4. 4

    To be placed in an upright or vertical orientation.

  5. 5

    To place in an upright or standing position.

    He stood the broom in a corner and took a break.

  6. 6

    To occupy or hold a place; to be set, placed, fixed, located, or situated.

    Paris stands on the Seine.

  7. 7

    To measure when erect on the feet.

  8. 8

    To be present, to have welled up.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of standing.

    I took my stand upon an eminence […] to look into their several ladings.

  2. 2

    A defensive position or effort.

    The Commander says we will make our stand here.

  3. 3

    A resolute, unwavering position; firm opinion; action for a purpose in the face of opposition.

    They took a firm stand against copyright infringement.

  4. 4

    A period of performance in a given location or venue.

    They have a four-game stand at home against the Yankees.

  5. 5

    A device to hold something upright or aloft.

    He set the music upon the stand and began to play.  an umbrella stand;  a hat-stand

  6. 6

    The platform on which a witness testifies in court; the witness stand or witness box.

    She took the stand and quietly answered questions.

  7. 7

    An area of raised seating for waiters at the stock exchange.

  8. 8

    A particular grove or other group of trees or shrubs.

    This stand of pines is older than the one next to it.

  9. 9

    ScotlandUSdatedA container which stands upright, such as a barrel or cask.

  10. 10

    obsoleteA weight of from two hundred and fifty to three hundred pounds, used in weighing pitch.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Stand in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchêtre debout, se tenir debout (to support oneself on the feet in an erect…), se lever (to rise to one’s feet), se tenir (to remain motionless), attendre (to be positioned to gain or lose), tolérer (to tolerate)
Germanstehen, staa (to support oneself on the feet in an erect…), aufstehen (to rise to one’s feet), bestehen, durchstehen (to undergo; withstand; hold up), Standpunkt (resolute, unwavering position)
Portugueseestar em pé (to support oneself on the feet in an erect…), levantar, ficar em pé (to rise to one’s feet), ficar parado (to remain motionless), aguentar, passar por (to undergo; withstand; hold up)
Spanishestar de pie, estar parado, estar en pie (to support oneself on the feet in an erect…), levantarse, pararse, ponerse de pie (to rise to one’s feet)

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 stand come from?

From Middle English stonden, standen (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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