Stock Photography spelling guide

How do you spell stock photography?

S-T-O-C-K P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y

Stock photography is spelled S-T-O-C-K P-H-O-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y, two words, no hyphen. Both f sounds in photography are written ph, so fotography and photografy are wrong. The phrase covers any ready-made picture offered for reuse under a license.

Spelling tip

Two words with no hyphen; photography uses ph twice and ends in -phy, not -fy.

What it means in stock photography

Stock photography is the business of supplying existing pictures for license rather than shooting them to order. Affordable Stock Photography delivers that kind of imagery as 8K JPGs.

Common misspellings

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