stuck
/stʌk/adjective, verb
stuck is spelled S-T-U-C-K. The wrong spelling people search most is stucked: about 130 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 18 of all searches for the word. Stuck is an adjective meaning “Unable to move”.
How many letters and syllables are in stuck?
| Letters | 5: S-T-U-C-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 48 times per million words; the 2,113th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stucked, about 130 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 stuck?
Stuck is spelled S-T-U-C-K. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 18 of the searches for stuck 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 stuck?
Stuck appears 48 times per million words in written English, the 2,113th 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 stuck?
- /stʌk/
- /stʊk/
Stuck has one syllable (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: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Pvanp7-stuck.wav, En-us-stuck.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stuck
- more stuck comparative
- most stuck superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stuck mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Unable to move.
Can you shift this gate? I think it’s stuck.
- 2
Unable to progress with a task.
I’m totally stuck on this question in the test.
- 3
No longer functioning, frozen up, frozen.
There are several ways to close a stuck program.
- 4
archaicslangIn the situation of having no money.
verb
- 1
simple past and past participle of stick (archaic sticked)
noun
- 1
obsoleteA thrust, especially with a lance or sword.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stuck in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bloqué, coincé |
| German | eingeklemmt, festgeklemmt, festsitzen, feststecken, stecken , festgefahren |
| Portuguese | preso |
| Spanish | atascado, atrapado, pegado, atollado, atorado |
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 stuck come from?
Compare stoccado.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).