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stylebook

noun

stylebook is spelled S-T-Y-L-E-B-O-O-K: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stylebook means “A manual containing an organization's standardized usage conventions for how to write” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stylebook is stylebooks.

How many letters and syllables are in stylebook?

Letters9: S-T-Y-L-E-B-O-O-K
In writingabout once in every 25 million words; the 150,355th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is stylebook?

Stylebook appears about once in every 25 million words in written English, the 150,355th 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).

Forms of stylebook

  • stylebooks plural

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

What does stylebook mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A manual containing an organization's standardized usage conventions for how to write.

    I have a copy of the UPI stylebook, which I check when I need to know how to write something.

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

Where does stylebook come from?

From style + book.

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

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