stane
/steɪn/noun
stane is a noun meaning “A dialectal or obsolete form of stone” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-T-A-N-E, and it appears about once in every 12 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of stane is stanes.
What does stane mean?
noun
- 1
A dialectal or obsolete form of stone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce stane?
- /steɪn/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stane.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stane
- stanes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is stane?
Stane appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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).
Where does stane come from?
From Northern Middle English stan, stane, from Old English stān (“stone”). More at stone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).