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stud

/stʌd/noun, verb

stud is spelled S-T-U-D: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stud means “A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stud is studs.

How many letters and syllables are in stud?

Letters4: S-T-U-D
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing5.5 times per million words; the 10,519th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in 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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is stud?

Stud appears 5.5 times per million words in written English, the 10,519th 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 stud?

  • US /stʌd/
  • /stʊd/

Stud 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)-Vealhurl-stud.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with stud?

One word on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as stud from its last stressed vowel (/ʌd/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: dust.

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 stud

  • studs plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • studding participle, present
  • studded participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stud mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A male animal, especially a stud horse (stallion), kept for breeding.

  2. 2

    A female animal, especially a studmare (broodmare), kept for breeding.

  3. 3

    A group of broodmares or other animals kept for breeding.

  4. 4

    A group of locomotives

  5. 5

    An animal (usually livestock) that has been registered and is retained for breeding.

    at stud

  6. 6

    A place, such as a ranch, where such animals are kept.

  7. 7

    colloquialA sexually attractive, promiscuous male.

  8. 8

    slangA sexually dominant lesbian, chiefly African-American.

  9. 9

    A small object that protrudes from something; an ornamental knob.

    a collar with studs

  10. 10

    A style of earring where the decorative element is mounted on a straight post.

    She's wearing studs in her ears.

  11. 11

    A vertical post, especially one of the small uprights in the framing for lath and plaster partitions, and furring, and upon which the laths are nailed.

  12. 12

    A cleat on a shoe.

  13. 13

    obsoleteA stem; a trunk.

  14. 14

    A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.

  15. 15

    A short rod or pin, fixed in and projecting from something, and sometimes forming a journal.

  16. 16

    A stud bolt.

  17. 17

    Clipping of student.

verb

  1. 1

    To set with studs; to furnish with studs.

  2. 2

    To decorate as a stud does.

  3. 3

    To be scattered over the surface of (something) at intervals.

  4. 4

    To set (something) over a surface at intervals.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Stud in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchétalon (male animal kept for breeding), clou (small object protruding from something), boucle d'oreille (small round earring)
GermanDeckhengst, Schälhengst, Schellhengst, Beschäler, Beschälhengst, Zuchthengst (male animal kept for breeding)
Portuguesegaranhão (male animal kept for breeding), caudelaria, haras (animal breeding place), montante (vertical post)
Spanishsemental, garañón, padrillo (male animal kept for breeding), estoperol (small object protruding from something), criadero (animal breeding place), galán (sexually attractive male)

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 stud come from?

From Middle English stood, stod, from Old English stōd, from Proto-West Germanic *stōd, from Proto-Germanic *stōdą. Cognate with Middle Low German stōt, German Stute, Dutch stoet and Old Norse stóð.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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