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script

/skɹɪpt/noun, verb

script is spelled S-C-R-I-P-T. The wrong spelling people search most is scirpt: about 30 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 370 of all searches for the word. Script is a noun meaning “A writing; a written document”. The plural of script is scripts.

How many letters and syllables are in script?

Letters6: S-C-R-I-P-T
Syllables1
In writing23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, scirpt, about 30 Bing searches a month (all of them)
Rhymes with

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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell script?

Script is spelled S-C-R-I-P-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 371 of the searches for script in either form.

scriptthe right spelling11,110 searches a month
scirptr and i swapped30 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is script?

Script appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 script?

  • US /skɹɪpt/
  • /skɹəpt/
  • /skɾipʈ/

Script has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-script.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with script?

2 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as script from its last stressed vowel (/ɪpt/):

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 script

  • scripts plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • scripting participle, present
  • scripted participle, past

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

What does script mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A writing; a written document.

  2. 2

    Written characters; style of writing.

  3. 3

    Type made in imitation of handwriting.

  4. 4

    An original instrument or document.

  5. 5

    The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.

  6. 6

    A series of events with a predefined order and outcome.

  7. 7

    A brief and simple program.

    I wrote a Python script to put all the files into the right format.

  8. 8

    A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

verb

  1. 1

    To make or write a script.

  2. 2

    To devise, concoct, or contrive.

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

Script in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchécrit (writing; written document), écriture (written characters, style of writing), script, scénario (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)
GermanSkript, Skriptum (writing; written document), Handschrift (written characters, style of writing), Drehbuch (text of the dialogue and action for a drama), Urschrift, Original ((law) an original instrument or document)
Portugueseescrito (writing; written document), escrita (written characters, style of writing), script, roteiro (text of the dialogue and action for a drama)
Spanishescrito, escripto (writing; written document), libreto, guion, script (text of the dialogue and action for a drama), guionar (to make or write a script)

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 script come from?

From Middle English scrit, borrowed from Old French escrit, from Latin scriptum (something written), from scrībō (“write”).

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

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