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stomp

/stɑmp/verb, noun

stomp is spelled S-T-O-M-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, stomp means “To trample heavily” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in stomp?

Letters5: S-T-O-M-P
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.8 times per million words; the 20,906th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone 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 stomp?

Stomp appears 1.8 times per million words in written English, the 20,906th 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 stomp?

  • UK /stɒmp/
  • US /stɑmp/

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

What rhymes with stomp?

8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stomp from its last stressed vowel (/ɑmp/):

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 stomp

  • stomps present, singular, he/she/it, plural
  • stomping participle, present
  • stomped participle, past

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

What does stomp mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    To trample heavily.

  2. 2

    To stamp (one’s foot or feet).

  3. 3

    slangTo severely beat someone physically or figuratively.

  4. 4

    To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone

  5. 5

    To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

noun

  1. 1

    A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp.

    She obliterated the cockroach with one stomp.

  2. 2

    Any of various dances incorporating repeated heavy, rhythmic steps.

  3. 3

    A style of jazz music for stomp dances of the early twentieth century.

  4. 4

    A piece of music in this style.

    King Porter Stomp

  5. 5

    datedslangA social gathering where dancing is the main activity; a dance.

    We’re going to a stomp tonight.

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

Stomp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchfouler, piétiner (trample heavily on something or someone)
Germanstampfen, zerstampfen, trampeln (trample heavily on something or someone), Stampfer, Fußstampfer, kräftiger Tritt (a stamp)
Portuguesepisotear (trample heavily on something or someone), pisar (grape crushing)
Spanishpisotear, patullar, apisonar, zapatear, hollar, rehollar (trample heavily on something or someone)

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 stomp come from?

1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen (“to stomp”). More at stamp.

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

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