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: sth.

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.