stone's throw
"stone-s-throw" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stone's throw” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stone-s-throw · stone's throw · English
stone's throw · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stone's throw |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stone's throw” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stone's throw is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for stone's throw, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is stone's throw, spelled S-T-O-N-E-'-S- -T-H-R-O-W.
Definition
- 1A short distance, roughly equivalent to how far a person can throw a stone.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stone's throw appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A couple of grown-ups was standing a couple of stone's throws away from us.
1 March 2018, Tusdiq Din on BBC Sport, Mohamed Salah: Is Liverpool striker's success improving engagement with Muslim fans? A stone's throw from The Hawthorns is Oldbury, home to Baggies fan Ashley Rawlins.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.