story
/ˈstɔ.ɹi/noun, verb, interjection
story is spelled S-T-O-R-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is sotry: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 256 of all searches for the word. Story is a noun meaning “An account of real or fictional events”. The plural of story is stories.
How many letters and syllables are in story?
| Letters | 5: S-T-O-R-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 282 times per million words; the 338th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, sotry, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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 do you spell story?
Story is spelled S-T-O-R-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 155 of the searches for story in either form.
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). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is story?
Story appears 282 times per million words in written English, the 338th 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 story?
- UK /ˈstɔː.ɹi/
- US /ˈstɔ.ɹi/
Story 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: En-uk-story.ogg, En-us-story.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with story
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with story?
7 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as story from its last stressed vowel (/ɔɹi/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: stroy.
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 story
- stories plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- storying participle, present
- storied participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does story mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An account of real or fictional events.
The book tells the story of two roommates.
- 2
A lie, fiction.
You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
- 3
UScolloquialA soap opera.
What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
- 4
obsoleteHistory.
- 5
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
What's the story with him?
- 6
A chronological collection of pictures or short videos published by a user on an application or website that is typically only available for a short period.
- 7
Ellipsis of user story.
- 8
USAlternative spelling of storey.
Our shop was on the fourth story of the building, so we had to install an elevator.
verb
- 1
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
- 2
To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.
interjection
- 1
IrelandUsed as a greeting, short for what's the story?
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Story in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense account of events:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | histoire, conte |
| German | Erzählung, Geschichte |
| Portuguese | estória, história, conto |
| Spanish | relato, cuento, crónica, historia, historieta, fábula |
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.