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stomach

/ˈstʌmək/noun, verb

stomach is spelled S-T-O-M-A-C-H. The wrong spelling people search most is stomache: about 300 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 23 of all searches for the word. Stomach is a noun meaning “An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion”. The plural of stomach is stomachs.

How many letters and syllables are in stomach?

Letters7: S-T-O-M-A-C-H
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing26 times per million words; the 3,479th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, stomache, about 300 Bing searches a month (all of them)

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).

How do you spell stomach?

Stomach is spelled S-T-O-M-A-C-H. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 23 of the searches for stomach in either form.

stomachthe right spelling6,620 searches a month
stomachean extra e300 searches a month

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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is stomach?

Stomach appears 26 times per million words in written English, the 3,479th 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 stomach?

  • UK /ˈstʌmək/
  • /ˈstʊmək/
  • US /ˈstʌmək/

Stomach 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-stomach.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stomach

  • stomachs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stomaching participle, present
  • stomached participle, past

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

What does stomach mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    An organ in animals that stores food in the process of digestion.

  2. 2

    informalThe belly.

    Why did you hit me in the stomach?

  3. 3

    obsoletePride, haughtiness.

  4. 4

    obsoleteAn appetite.

    a good stomach for roast beef

  5. 5

    A desire, an appetite (for something abstract).

    I have no stomach for a fight today.

  6. 6

    The part of a garment that covers a person's stomach.

verb

  1. 1

    To tolerate (something), emotionally, physically, or mentally; to stand or handle something.

    I really can’t stomach jobs involving that much paperwork, but some people seem to tolerate them.

  2. 2

    obsoleteTo be angry.

  3. 3

    obsoleteTo resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.

  4. 4

    obsoleteTo turn the stomach of; to sicken or repel.

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

Stomach in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchestomac (digestive organ), ventre, bedon (belly – see also abdomen, belly), digérer (to tolerate or accept something)
GermanMagen (digestive organ), Bauch (belly – see also abdomen, belly)
Portugueseestômago (digestive organ), barriga (belly – see also abdomen, belly), aturar (to tolerate or accept something)
Spanishestómago (digestive organ), barriga, vientre (belly – see also abdomen, belly), sentarle, caerle (to tolerate or accept something)

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 stomach come from?

From Middle English stomak, from Old French estomac, from Latin stomachus, from Ancient Greek στόμαχος (stómakhos), from στόμα (stóma, “mouth”). Partially displaced native Old English maga, whence Modern English maw.

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

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