structure
struc·ture/ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/noun, verb
structure is spelled S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-E, 2 syllables: struc·ture. The wrong spelling people search most is stucture: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 127 of all searches for the word. Structure is a noun meaning “A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts”. The plural of structure is structures.
How many letters and syllables are in structure?
| Letters | 9: S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: struc·ture |
| In writing | 69 times per million words; the 1,528th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, stucture, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 structure?
Structure is spelled S-T-R-U-C-T-U-R-E. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 77 of the searches for structure 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 structure?
Structure appears 69 times per million words in written English, the 1,528th 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 structure?
- UK /ˈstɹʌk(t)ʃə/
- US /ˈstɹʌkt͡ʃɚ/
- Australia [ˈstʃɹɐktʃə]
Structure has 2 syllables, split struc·ture in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-structure.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with structure?
One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as structure from its last stressed vowel (/ʌktʃəɹ/):
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 structure
- structures plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- structuring participle, present
- structured participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does structure mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A cohesive whole built up of distinct parts.
The birds had built an amazing structure out of sticks and various discarded items.
- 2
The underlying shape of a solid.
He studied the structure of her face.
- 3
The overall form or organization of something.
The structure of a sentence.
- 4
A set of rules defining behaviour.
For some, the structure of school life was oppressive.
- 5
Several pieces of data treated as a unit.
This structure contains both date and timezone information.
- 6
Underwater terrain or objects (such as a dead tree or a submerged car) that tend to attract fish
There's lots of structure to be fished along the west shore of the lake; the impoundment submerged a town there when it was built.
- 7
A body, such as a political party, with a cohesive purpose or outlook.
The South African leader went off to consult with the structures.
- 8
A set along with a collection of finitary functions and relations.
verb
- 1
To give structure to; to arrange.
I'm trying to structure my time better so I'm not always late.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Structure in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Struktur , Datenstruktur , strukturieren |
| Portuguese | estrutura , registro , estruturar |
| Spanish | estructura , estructurar |
| French | structure |
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 structure come from?
From Middle French structure, from Latin structūra (“a fitting together, adjustment, building, erection, a building, edifice, structure”), from struere, past participle structus (“pile up, arrange, assemble, build”). Compare construct, instruct, destroy, etc.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).