sty

Other forms of sty

plural

sties·

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 sty

What does sty mean?

sty means "an infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sty?

sty has 1 syllable: sty. In IPA it is /ˈstaɪ/.

What is another word for sty?

Close synonyms include stye, hordeolum, eye infection, pigsty, pigpen. 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 sty a common word?

sty is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with sty?

1 word rhymes with sty. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.