sth

Other forms of sth

plural

sths·

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 sth

What does sth mean?

sth means "a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland; promotes growth in humans".

How many syllables are in sth?

sth 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 sth?

Close synonyms include somatotropin, somatotrophin, somatotropic hormone, somatotrophic hormone, human growth hormone. 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 sth a common word?

sth is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.