stoned
/stəʊnd/
"stoned" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stoned” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #15,518 in English word frequency and used as a verb.
- #15,518
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - simple past and past participle of stone
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stoned |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /stəʊnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #15,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stoned” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for stoned is 6 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /stəʊnd/. Corpus data places it at rank #15,518 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "simple past and past participle of stone".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for stoned, with forms such as "sotned", "sstoned", and "stnoed". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "store", "stood", "stove", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed. The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully cl… The correct English form is stoned, spelled S-T-O-N-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of stone
Etymology
From Middle English stoned (simple past) and stoned, istoned (past participle), equivalent to stone + -ed. The etymology for the sense of "exhilarated, intoxicated by substances", which originated in American English in the mid-20th century, is not fully clear. It could be derived from stone drunk, a common slang expression from the mid-19th to early-20th century. It is more frequently theorized to be a phono-semantic matching of Italian-American slang stunod (“dazzled, stupid”), from Italian stonato (“out of tune, off-key”). In 1952, Life Magazine listed it in a glossary of bop musician slang, in the sense of "drunk, captivated, ecstatic, sent out of this world" (see quote). This could lend further credence to the idea of the word originating from a musical term.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: sotned,sstoned,stnoed,stoend,stonde,stonedd,stonned,sttoned,tsoned
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of stoned - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “stoned”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-O-N-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /stəʊnd/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “store” - see the side-by-side comparison. stoned vs store
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.