stitch
/stɪt͡ʃ/noun, verb
stitch is spelled S-T-I-T-C-H: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “stich vs stitch” about 20 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, stitch means “A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stitch is stitches.
How many letters and syllables are in stitch?
| Letters | 6: S-T-I-T-C-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.4 times per million words; the 12,216th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| 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); 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 stitch?
Stitch appears 4.4 times per million words in written English, the 12,216th 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 stitch?
- US /stɪt͡ʃ/
Stitch 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-stitch.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with stitch
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: stich.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with stitch?
2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stitch from its last stressed vowel (/ɪtʃ/):
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 stitch
- stitches plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- stitching participle, present
- stitched participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stitch mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made.
- 2
A single pass of a surgical suture (to sew the edges of a wound together)
I cut myself badly while cooking and needed to go to hospital to get stitches.
- 3
An arrangement of stitches in sewing, or method of stitching in some particular way or style.
cross stitch
- 4
An intense stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage, brought on by exercise or laughing.
I've got a stitch. I'm going to have to stop and rest.
- 5
A local sharp pain (anywhere); an acute pain, like the piercing of a needle.
a stitch in the side
- 6
A single turn of the thread round a needle in knitting; a link, or loop, of yarn
drop a stitch
- 7
An arrangement of stitches in knitting, or method of knitting in some particular way or style.
- 8
A space of work taken up, or gone over, in a single pass of the needle.
verb
- 1
To form stitches in; especially, to sew in such a manner as to show on the surface a continuous line of stitches.
to stitch a shirt bosom.
- 2
To sew, or unite or attach by stitches.
to stitch printed sheets in making a book or a pamphlet.
- 3
To practice/practise stitching or needlework.
- 4
To form land into ridges.
- 5
To weld together through a series of connecting or overlapping spot welds.
- 6
To include, combine, or unite into a single whole.
- 7
To combine two or more photographs of the same scene into a single image.
I can use this software to stitch together a panorama.
- 8
To incorporate (an existing video) into a new one, resulting in a collaborative clip that shows the two videos in a sequence.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate stitch?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of stitch: st.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stitch in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | point , point de côté , maille , crampe , fringue |
| German | Stich , Seitenstechen , Masche , Stechen , Strickmuster |
| Portuguese | ponto , pontada |
| Spanish | puntada, punto , dolor en el costado, punzada |
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 stitch come from?
From Middle English stiche, from Old English stiċe (“a prick, puncture, stab, thrust with a pointed implement, pricking sensation, stitch, pain in the side, sting”), from Proto-West Germanic *stiki, from Proto-Germanic *stikiz (“prick, piercing, stitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stab, pierce”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).