# stork

> English word · Noun · IPA /stɔɹk/ · frequency rank #33,860

## Definitions
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.
3. The seventeenth Lenormand card.

## Etymology
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.

## Easily confused with
- **STR** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-str)
- **stow** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-stow)
- **story** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-story)
- **stuck** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-stuck)
- **storm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-storm)
- **sword** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-sword)
- **sworn** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-sworn)
- **stove** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-stove)
- **swore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-swore)
- **stout** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-stout)
- **Stowe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-stowe)
- **sturt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-sturt)
- **Sturm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-sturm)
- **storms** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-storms)
- **stormy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stork-vs-stormy)
- **sor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sor-vs-stork)
- **stop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stop-vs-stork)
- **star** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/star-vs-stork)
- **sort** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sort-vs-stork)
- **sore** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sore-vs-stork)

## Common misspellings (8)
`sotrk`, `sstork`, `stokr`, `storkk`, `storrk`, `strok`, `sttork`, `tsork`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/stork