stock
/stɑk/noun, verb, adjective
stock is spelled S-T-O-C-K: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 85 times per million words in written English, the 1,251st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “stalk vs stock” about 90 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, stock means “A store or supply” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stock is stocks; Wiktionary also lists stocken (obsolete).
How many letters and syllables are in stock?
| Letters | 5: S-T-O-C-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 85 times per million words; the 1,251st 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 stock?
Stock appears 85 times per million words in written English, the 1,251st 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 stock?
- UK /stɒk/
- US /stɑk/
Stock 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-stock.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with stock
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with stock?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stock from its last stressed vowel (/ɑk/):
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 stock
- stocks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- stocking participle, present
- stocked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stock mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A store or supply.
- 2
A store of goods ready for sale; inventory.
We have a stock of televisions on hand.
- 3
A supply of anything, stored until used; especially, such a supply that is ready for use.
Lay in a stock of wood for the winter season.
- 4
Railroad rolling stock.
The Grand Trunk Railway had just purchased a large order of stock from the American Car and Foundry Company.
- 5
A stack of undealt cards made available to the players.
- 6
Farm or ranch animals; livestock.
Good ranchers must continually keep watch over the health of their stock.
- 7
The population of a given type of animal (especially fish) available to be captured from the wild for economic use.
The stocks of this fishery are recovering from overfishing, but the gains can easily reverse if our husbandry efforts lapse.
- 8
The capital raised by a company through the issue of shares; the total of shares held by an individual shareholder.
His grandpa had bought some stock in General Electric in 1905, and he refused to sell it ever after.
- 9
A thrust with a rapier; a stoccado.
verb
- 1
To have on hand for sale.
The store stocks all kinds of dried vegetables.
- 2
To provide with material requisites; to store; to fill; to supply.
to stock a warehouse with goods
- 3
To allow (cows) to retain milk for twenty-four hours or more prior to sale.
- 4
To put in the stocks as punishment.
- 5
To fit (an anchor) with a stock, or to fasten the stock firmly in place.
- 6
datedTo arrange cards in a certain manner for cheating purposes; to stack the deck.
adjective
- 1
Of a type normally available for purchase/in stock.
stock items
- 2
Having the same configuration as cars sold to the non-racing public, or having been modified from such a car.
- 3
Straightforward, ordinary, just another, very basic.
He gave me a stock answer.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stock in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stock , réserve , pioche , bétail , action , bouillon |
| German | Vorrat, Lager, Vorratslager , Fundus, Handlager , vorrätig |
| Portuguese | estoque , reserva , gado , ação , caldo , estirpe |
| Spanish | stock, existencias, inventario, estocaje , reserva , ganado |
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 stock come from?
From Middle English stok, from Old English stocc, from Proto-West Germanic *stokk, from Proto-Germanic *stukkaz (“tree-trunk”). Modern senses are mostly referring either to the trunk from which the tree grows (figuratively, its origin and/or support/foundation), or to a piece of wood, stick, or rod.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).