stink

Other forms of stink

plural

stinks·

past tense or participle

stank

past tense or participle

stunk

present participle

stinking·

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 stink

What does stink mean?

stink means "be extremely bad in quality or in one's performance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stink?

stink has 1 syllable: stink. In IPA it is /ˈstɪŋk/.

What is another word for stink?

Close synonyms include reek, malodor, malodour, stench, reek. 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 stink a common word?

stink is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.