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store

/stɔɹ/noun, verb

store is spelled S-T-O-R-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, store means “A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of store is stores.

How many letters and syllables are in store?

Letters5: S-T-O-R-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing105 times per million words; the 1,021st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Pairs people 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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is store?

Store appears 105 times per million words in written English, the 1,021st 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 store?

  • UK /stɔː/
  • US /stɔɹ/
  • /sto(ː)ɹ/

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

Words people confuse with store

Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).

store vs stow0 B

Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with store?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as store from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹ/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: resto, estro, torse.

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 store

  • stores plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • storing participle, present
  • stored participle, past, singular, he/she/it, plural

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

What does store mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A place where items may be accumulated or routinely kept.

    Near-synonyms: storeroom, stockroom, warehouse, magazine (archaic)

  2. 2

    A supply held in storage.

    Near-synonyms: stock, supply; cache, stash

  3. 3

    A building (or portion thereof) where items may be purchased.

    Dad went to the store to get milk and bread.

  4. 4

    datedMemory.

    The main store of 1000 36-bit words seemed large at the time.

  5. 5

    A great quantity or number; abundance.

  6. 6

    Ellipsis of store cattle beast: a head of store cattle (feeder cattle to be sold to others for finishing).

    heifers and stores

verb

  1. 1

    To keep (something) while not in use, generally in a place meant for that purpose.

    I'll store these books in the attic.

  2. 2

    To contain.

    The cabinets store all the food the mice would like.

  3. 3

    Have the capacity and capability to contain.

    They sell boxes that store 24 mason jars.

  4. 4

    To write (something) into memory or registers.

    This operation stores the result on the stack.

  5. 5

    To stock, to fill (a container, repository, etc.) with things.

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

How do you abbreviate store?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of store: st.

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

Store in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchentrepôt (place where items may be kept), stock (supply held in storage), stocker (keep (something) while not in use), conserver (remain in good condition while stored)
GermanLager, Speicher (place where items may be kept), Vorrat, Lagerbestand (supply held in storage), lagern (keep (something) while not in use), speichern (computing: write (something) into memory or…)
Portuguesedepósito (place where items may be kept), estoque (supply held in storage), armazenar, guardar (keep (something) while not in use), loja (shop)
Spanishdepósito, almacén, bodega (place where items may be kept), existencias, reservas, provisión (supply held in storage)

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 store come from?

Inherited from Middle English store, borrowed from Anglo-Norman stor, from Latin īnstaurāre, from īnstaurō + -āre.

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

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