stanza
/ˈstænzə/noun
stanza is spelled S-T-A-N-Z-A: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stanza means “A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stanza is stanzas.
How many letters and syllables are in stanza?
| Letters | 6: S-T-A-N-Z-A |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 1.0 times per million words; the 28,556th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; 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 stanza?
Stanza appears 1.0 times per million words in written English, the 28,556th 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 stanza?
- /ˈstænzə/
Stanza has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-stanza.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stanza?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stanza.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ansatz.
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 stanza
- stanzas plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stanza mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A unit of a poem, written or printed as a paragraph; equivalent to a verse.
- 2
An apartment or division in a building.
- 3
An XML element which acts as basic unit of meaning in XMPP.
- 4
A section of a configuration file consisting of a related group of lines.
- 5
A segment; a portion of a broadcast devoted to a particular topic.
- 6
A period; an interval into which a sporting event is divided.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stanza in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a unit of a poem:
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 stanza come from?
From Italian stanza, from Vulgar Latin *stantia (“standing, stopping-place”), from Latin stāns, stantis, from stō, stāre, from Proto-Italic *staēō, from Proto-Indo-European *sth₂éh₁yeti, stative verb from *steh₂- (whence English stand). Doublet of stance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).