stronger
/stɹɔŋɡɚ/adjective
stronger is spelled S-T-R-O-N-G-E-R. The wrong spelling people search most is stonger: about 20 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 58 of all searches for the word. Stronger is an adjective meaning “Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the former entails the latter, but the latter does…”.
How many letters and syllables are in stronger?
| Letters | 8: S-T-R-O-N-G-E-R |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 35 times per million words; the 2,725th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stonger, about 20 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell stronger?
Stronger is spelled S-T-R-O-N-G-E-R. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 58 of the searches for stronger 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 stronger?
Stronger appears 35 times per million words in written English, the 2,725th 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 stronger?
- UK /stɹɒŋɡə/
- US /stɹɔŋɡɚ/
- /ˈstɹɑŋɡɚ/
Stronger 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-us-stronger.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What does stronger mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
comparative form of strong: more strong
- 2
Said of one proposition with respect to another one: that the former entails the latter, but the latter does not entail the former.
- 3
Better.
Compared to the previous semester, my grades now are a lot stronger.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does stronger come from?
From Middle English strongere, strengere (“stronger”), from Old English strongra, strengra (“stronger”), from Proto-Germanic *strangizô (“*stronger”), comparative of Proto-Germanic *strangaz (“strong”), equivalent to strong + -er. More at strong.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).