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stash

/stæʃ/noun, verb

stash is spelled S-T-A-S-H: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “stache vs stash” about 30 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, stash means “A collection, sometimes hidden” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stash is stashes.

How many letters and syllables are in stash?

Letters5: S-T-A-S-H
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing3.5 times per million words; the 14,106th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search
Sounds like
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is stash?

Stash appears 3.5 times per million words in written English, the 14,106th 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 stash?

  • /stæʃ/

Stash has one syllable (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: En-us-stash.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with stash

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

stache vs stash30 G

Sounds like: stache (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with stash?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stash.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: thass.

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 stash

  • stashes plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stashing participle, present
  • stashed participle, past
  • 'stache
  • stache

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

What does stash mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A collection, sometimes hidden.

    Near-synonyms: cache, reserve, hoard

  2. 2

    USinformalslangA place where drugs are stored.

    The dealers managed to store the dope in the stash just in time to avoid being caught by the police.

  3. 3

    UKslangClothing or other items branded with a particular university club or society's logo.

    Near-synonyms: merch, swag

  4. 4

    A collection of yarn or other materials not yet allocated to any particular craft project.

  5. 5

    informalnonstandardslangA mustache.

verb

  1. 1

    To hide or store away for later use.

    He stashed his liquor in the cabinet under the bar.

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

Stash in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchréserve secrète, planque, cachette (collection), mettre de côté (store away for later use)
German(geheimes) Versteck, Vorrat (collection), bunkern, verstecken (store away for later use)
Portuguesereserva, esconderijo (collection), reservar, guardar, arrecadar (store away for later use)
Spanishreserva, secreto, depósito, alijo (collection), reservar (store away for later use)

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 stash come from?

Unknown. Perhaps a blend of stick + cache or stow + cache.

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

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