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stork

/stɔɹk/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.88 in modern English

Syllables
stork
IPA
/stɔɹk/
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.

noun

The mythical bringer of babies to families, or good news.

noun

The seventeenth Lenormand card.

name

A surname.

Example Sentences

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English stork, from Old English storc, from Proto-West Germanic *stork, from Proto-Germanic *sturkaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥ǵos (“stork”). Near cognates include Dutch stork, German Storch, Swedish stork, and Icelandic storkur. Compare also Latvian stārķis (“stork”), borrowed from Germanic.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: stork, storc, *stork, *sturkaz, *sr̥ǵos

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /stɔɹk/
  • British English: /stɔːk/

Inflected Forms

storks (plural)

Derived Forms

storkish storklike storkling storksbill storkwise storky

Phrases

adjutant stork black-necked stork black stork giant stork hair-crested stork maguari stork marabou stork milky stork

Frequently Paired Words

crane egret heron

Homonyms

stalk (non-rhotic)

Rhymes With

york new-york fork pork cork torque o'rourke yorke rourke bork bjork roark

Questions

How do you pronounce stork?
The recorded pronunciation is /stɔɹk/.
What does stork mean?
A large wading bird with long legs and a long beak of the order Ciconiiformes and its family Ciconiidae.
Where does stork come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

How to pronounce stork

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