story
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, story sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4tyros, ryots
- One letter away
- 5stony, store
What it means
- nouna message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
- nouna piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related events
- nouna structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ao1 r iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
83 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allegory
- auditory
- category
- circulatory
- contributory
- defamatory
- derogatory
- discriminatory
- dormitory
- explanatory
- glory
- gory
- inflammatory
- inventory
- laboratory
- lavatory
- lorry
- mandatory
- migratory
- obligatory
- observatory
- oratory
- predatory
- preparatory
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: tyros, ryots, stroy, troys.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.