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filmstrip

noun

filmstrip is spelled F-I-L-M-S-T-R-I-P: 9 letters. It appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, filmstrip means “A length of film containing individual photographs or diagrams intended to be shown in sequence as instruction or as a visual aid” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of filmstrip is filmstrips.

How many letters and syllables are in filmstrip?

Letters9: F-I-L-M-S-T-R-I-P
In writingabout once in every 26 million words; the 155,937th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is filmstrip?

Filmstrip appears about once in every 26 million words in written English, the 155,937th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of filmstrip

  • filmstrips plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does filmstrip mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    A length of film containing individual photographs or diagrams intended to be shown in sequence as instruction or as a visual aid.

  2. 2

    A file containing a sequence of images or video frames.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Filmstrip in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense length of film:

LanguageWords
Frenchdiaporama, slideshow
Spanishfilmina, diaporama, slideshow

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does filmstrip come from?

From film + strip.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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