stoned
/stoʊnd/adjective, verb
stoned is spelled S-T-O-N-E-D: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, stoned means “Containing stones” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in stoned?
| Letters | 6: S-T-O-N-E-D |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 3.0 times per million words; the 15,368th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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 stoned?
Stoned appears 3.0 times per million words in written English, the 15,368th 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 stoned?
- UK /stəʊnd/
- US /stoʊnd/
Stoned 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-stoned.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stoned?
5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stoned from its last stressed vowel (/oʊnd/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: ostend.
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 stoned
- more stoned comparative
- most stoned superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stoned mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Containing stones.
- 2
Having had the stones removed.
- 3
archaicslangDrunk; intoxicated by alcohol.
- 4
slangHigh on drugs, especially cannabis.
We got stoned and ate four bags of potato chips.
- 5
slangExhilarated; intoxicated by something (such as love) other than drugs or alcohol.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of stone
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stoned in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense high on drugs:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | défoncé, déchiré, stone, gelé |
| German | bekifft, zu, breit |
| Portuguese | chapado, doidão, pedrado, mocado, ganzado |
| Spanish | colocado, marihuano, pacheco, emporrado, trabado |
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 stoned come from?
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”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).