std

Other forms of std

plural

stds·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about std

What does std mean?

std means "a communicable infection transmitted by sexual intercourse or genital contact". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in std?

std has 1 syllable under the regular spelling rules, and is not divided further. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for std?

Close synonyms include venereal disease, VD, venereal infection, social disease, Cupid's itch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is std a common word?

std is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.