sticks
/stɪks/noun, verb
sticks is spelled S-T-I-C-K-S: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a derogatory noun, sticks means “rural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in sticks?
| Letters | 6: S-T-I-C-K-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 14 times per million words; the 5,679th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| Rhymes with |
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 sticks?
Sticks appears 14 times per million words in written English, the 5,679th 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 sticks?
- US /stɪks/
Sticks 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-sticks.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with sticks
Sounds like: Styx (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Also written: stix.
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with sticks?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as sticks from its last stressed vowel (/ɪks/):
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 sticks
- stix
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does sticks mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
derogatoryinformalrural terrain, especially a woody area; any rural region.
We had to drive way out into the sticks to visit that customer.
- 2
Hurdles or other obstacles to be jumped over.
- 3
slangcrutches
- 4
plural of stick
verb
- 1
third-person singular simple present indicative of stick
noun
- 1
plural of Stick
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).