story: meaning and words from its letters
5 letters · 8 letter points · starts with S · ends with Y
Meaning of story
noun
An account of real or fictional events.
Example: The book tells the story of two roommates.
A lie, fiction.
Example: You’ve been telling stories again, haven’t you?
- US, colloquial
A soap opera.
Example: What will she do without being able to watch her stories?
A sequence of events, or a situation, such as might be related in an account.
Example: What's the story with him?
Listed forms: stories, storie.
Source: Wiktionary — story.
verb
- transitive
To tell as a story; to relate or narrate about.
- ambitransitive, capitalized, sometimes
To post a story (chronological collection of pictures or short videos) on an application or website.
Listed forms: stories, storying, storied, storie.
Source: Wiktionary — story.
intj
- Ireland, idiomatic
Used as a greeting, short for what's the story?
Source: Wiktionary — story.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
Words are grouped by sense, so they are not necessarily interchangeable in every context. Search synonyms for story.
noun
a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
noun
a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale
noun
a record or narrative description of past events
noun
a short account of the news
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is story in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of story
S(1) + T(1) + O(1) + R(1) + Y(4) = 8 points.
This is a sum of letter values without board bonuses or word multipliers. A blank tile is worth zero: subtract the value of each letter supplied by a blank. The score does not establish game validity. Full letter-value table.
Anagrams of story
2 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
Shorter words from story
25 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in story. Showing up to 24, longest first.