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still-born

adjective

still-born is spelled S-T-I-L-L-B-O-R-N: 9 letters. As an adjective, still-born means “Alternative spelling of stillborn” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in still-born?

Letters9: S-T-I-L-L-B-O-R-N
In writinga phrase: the frequency list counts single words
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people search

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); 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).

Words people confuse with still-born

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

Also written: stillborn (one word or two).

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

What does still-born mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of stillborn.

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

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