storey
/ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/noun
storey is spelled S-T-O-R-E-Y: 6 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “storey vs story” about 480 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, storey means “A floor or level of a building or ship” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of storey is storeys; Wiktionary also lists stories (obsolete).
How many letters and syllables are in storey?
| Letters | 6: S-T-O-R-E-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 4.1 times per million words; the 12,764th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people 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); 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 storey?
Storey appears 4.1 times per million words in written English, the 12,764th 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 storey?
- UK /ˈstɔː.ɹɪ/
- UK /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
- British /ˈstoːɹɪj/
Storey has 2 syllables (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Sapaa-storey.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with storey
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Also written: story.
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with storey?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as storey (/ɔɹɪ/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: oyster.
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 storey
- storeys plural
- story US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does storey mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A floor or level of a building or ship.
For superstitious reasons, many buildings number their 13th storey as 14, bypassing 13 entirely.
- 2
A vertical level in certain letters, such as a and g.
The IPA symbol for a voiced velar stop is the single-storey , not the double-storey
- 3
obsoleteA building; an edifice.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Storey in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense floor, level:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | étage, niveau |
| German | Stock, Stockwerk, Geschoss, Etage |
| Portuguese | andar, piso |
| Spanish | piso, planta, nivel |
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 storey come from?
From Middle English story, via Medieval Latin historia (“narrative, illustraton, frieze”) from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”). The current sense arose from narrative friezes on upper levels of medieval buildings, esp. churches. Doublet of story and history.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).