Sty vs. Stye — What's the Difference?

A sty or pigsty is a small-scale outdoor enclosure for raising domestic pigs as livestock. It is sometimes referred to as a hog pen, hog parlor, pigpen, pig parlor, or pig-cote, although pig pen may refer to pens confining pigs that are kept as pets as well.

A stye, also known as a hordeolum, is a bacterial infection of an oil gland in the eyelid. This results in a red tender bump at the edge of the eyelid.

A pigsty.

An inflamed sebaceous gland of an eyelid.

An inflamed sebaceous gland of an eyelid.

(disease) A bacterial infection in the eyelash or eyelid.

A pen or enclosure for swine.

See Sty, a boil.

(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.

An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

A ladder.

(disease) An inflammation of the eyelid.

To place in, or as if in, a sty

To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place

(obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.

A pen or inclosure for swine.

A place of bestial debauchery.

An inflamed swelling or boil on the edge of the eyelid.

To shut up in, or as in, a sty.

To soar; to ascend; to mount. See Stirrup.

An infection of the sebaceous gland of the eyelid

A pen for swine