stocking
/ˈstɑkɪŋ/noun, verb
stocking is spelled S-T-O-C-K-I-N-G: 8 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stocking means “A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stocking is stockings.
How many letters and syllables are in stocking?
| Letters | 8: S-T-O-C-K-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.1 times per million words; the 15,146th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is stocking?
Stocking appears 3.1 times per million words in written English, the 15,146th 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 stocking?
- US /ˈstɑkɪŋ/
- UK /ˈstɒkɪŋ/
Stocking has 2 syllables (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-stocking.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stocking?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stocking from its last stressed vowel (/ɑkɪŋ/):
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 stocking
- stockings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stocking mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A soft garment, usually knit or woven, worn on the foot and lower leg under shoes or other footwear.
a pair of stockings
- 2
Ellipsis of Christmas stocking; a large, sock-like bag used to store small Christmas gifts, typically hung on a mantelpiece.
- 3
A broad ring of a different fur colour on the lower part of the leg of a quadruped.
- 4
A knitted hood of cotton thread which is eventually converted by a special process into an incandescent mantle for gas lighting.
- 5
A ratio of the actual density of trees in an area to the ideal density that would make the fullest use of the land.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of stock
I've almost finished stocking these groceries.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stocking in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense garment (for translations of "sock", see sock):
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 stocking come from?
From stock (“cover with material”) + -ing. Corruption of old plural -en, i.e. stocken, now singular.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).