# script

> English word · Noun · IPA /skɹɪpt/ · frequency rank #3,908

## Definitions
1. A writing; a written document.
2. Written characters; style of writing.
3. Type made in imitation of handwriting.
4. An original instrument or document.
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. A brief and simple program.
7. A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.
8. Ellipsis of behavioral script, a sequence of actions in a given situation.
9. A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.
10. Clipping of prescription (for drugs or medicine).

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

## Easily confused with
- **strip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-strip)
- **strict** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-strict)
- **sprint** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-sprint)
- **strips** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-strips)
- **stripe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-stripe)
- **sculpt** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-sculpt)
- **scripts** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-scripts)
- **scripted** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/script-vs-scripted)
- **scrap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scrap-vs-script)
- **scrip** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scrip-vs-script)
- **scrape** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scrape-vs-script)
- **scraps** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scraps-vs-script)
- **scribe** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/scribe-vs-script)

## Common misspellings (10)
`csript`, `sccript`, `scirpt`, `scrippt`, `scriptt`, `scritp`, `scrpit`, `scrript`, `srcipt`, `sscript`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/script