stork
/stɔɹk/noun
stork is spelled S-T-O-R-K: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stork means “A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stork is storks.
How many letters and syllables are in stork?
| Letters | 5: S-T-O-R-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,636th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Sounds like | |
| 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 stork?
Stork appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,636th 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 stork?
- US /stɔɹk/
- UK /stɔːk/
- British /stoːk/
Stork 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-stork.ogg, LL-Q7976_(mis)-Yadu_Amnus_(94ballboy)-stork.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with stork
Sounds like: stalk (Wiktionary's homophone list; some hold only in some accents).
Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with stork?
8 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stork from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹk/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: skort.
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 stork
- storks plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stork mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
- 2
The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.
My sister's expecting a visit from the stork.
- 3
The seventeenth Lenormand card.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stork in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense large wading bird of the family Ciconiidae:
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 stork come from?
Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).