stong
obsolete
stong is spelled S-T-O-N-G: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stong means “An area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stong is stongs.
How many letters and syllables are in stong?
| Letters | 5: S-T-O-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 12 million words; the 103,949th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 stong?
Stong appears about once in every 12 million words in written English, the 103,949th 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 stong?
Stong 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).
What rhymes with stong?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stong.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tongs.
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).
What does stong mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteAn area of land equivalent to a quarter of an acre; a rood; a stang.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does stong come from?
A form of stang (“staff; unit of land measure”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).