stound
/staʊnd/
"stound" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stound” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An hour.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stound · stound · English
stound · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stound |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /staʊnd/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stound” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stound is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /staʊnd/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 9 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for stound in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *s… The correct English form is stound, spelled S-T-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1An hour.
- 2A tide, season.
- 3A time, length of time, hour, while.
- 4A brief span of time, moment, instant.
- 5A moment or instance of urgency; exigence.
- 6A sharp or sudden pain; a shock, an attack.
- 7A stroke or blow (from an object or weapon); (by extension) a lashing; scourging
- 8A fit, an episode or sudden outburst of emotion; a rush.
- 9Astonishment; amazement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how stound appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
What booth wilt thou have? our king reply'd / Now tell me in this stound
He lay and slept, and swet a stound, / And became whole and sound.
Etymology
From Middle English stond, stounde, stound (“hour, time, season, moment”), from Old English stund (“a period of time, while, hour, occasion”), from Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂- (“to stand”). Cognate with Scots stound (“while, period of time, moment, sudden pain, pang, stroke, blow”), dated Dutch stond (“hour, time, moment”), Low German Stund (“hour”), German Stunde (“hour”), Danish stund (“time, while”), and Swedish stund (“time, while”). Compare Middle English stunden (“to linger, stay, remain for a while”), Icelandic stunda (“to frequent, pursue”). Related to stand.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.