stum
/stʌm/obsolete
stum is spelled S-T-U-M: 4 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stum means “Unfermented grape juice; must” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stum is stums.
How many letters and syllables are in stum?
| Letters | 4: S-T-U-M |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 32 million words; the 171,907th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 stum?
Stum appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 171,907th 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 stum?
- /stʌm/
Stum 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-stum.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stum?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stum.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: must, smut.
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 stum
- stums present, singular, he/she/it
- stumming participle, present
- stummed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stum mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
obsoleteUnfermented grape juice; must.
1620s, Ben Jonson, Leges Convivales Let our wines, without mixture of stum, be all fine.
- 2
obsoleteWine revived by new fermentation, resulting from the admixture of must.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo ferment.
- 2
obsoleteTo renew (wine etc.) by mixing must with it and raising a new fermentation.
- 3
obsoleteTo fume, as a cask of liquor, with burning sulphur.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does stum come from?
From Dutch stom (“unfermented”, literally “mute; dull”). Compare French vin muet, German stummer Wein. Doublet of shtum.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).