scrip
/skɹɪp/noun
scrip is spelled S-C-R-I-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, scrip means “A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of scrip is scrips.
How many letters and syllables are in scrip?
| Letters | 5: S-C-R-I-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 3 million words; the 47,073rd most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is scrip?
Scrip appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 47,073rd 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).
How do you pronounce scrip?
- /skɹɪp/
Scrip has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-scrip.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with scrip?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as scrip.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: crisp.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of scrip
- scrips plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does scrip mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A small medieval bag used to carry food, money, utensils etc.
Depositing his scrip in the outhouse the cowherd glanced around.
- 2
archaicSmall change.
In reading it in 1899, I am afraid that the readers of a hard, money generation may not know that "scrip" was in the sixties the name for small change.
- 3
A scrap of paper.
- 4
A document signifying a power to obtain a specified acreage of public land.
- 5
A voucher or token coin used in place of legal tender. Issued by a local government or a private organization.
- 6
Such a thing issued by a company as payment of wages.
- 7
A share certificate.
- 8
informalA medical prescription.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does scrip come from?
From Middle English scrippe, an aphetism of Old French escrepe (“purse, alms-bag”), a variant of escharpe, from Old Norse skreppa. Cognate with Danish skreppe (“scrip”), Norwegian skreppa (“bag”). Doublet of scarf.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).