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serape

/sɛˈɹɑːpeɪ/noun

serape is spelled S-E-R-A-P-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, serape means “A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of serape is serapes.

How many letters and syllables are in serape?

Letters6: S-E-R-A-P-E
In writingabout once in every 28 million words; the 161,690th 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 serape?

Serape appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th 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 serape?

  • /sɛˈɹɑːpeɪ/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-serape.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of serape

  • serapes plural
  • sarape
  • zarape

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

What does serape mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A type of blanket worn as a cloak, especially by Spanish-Americans, or used as a saddle blanket.

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

Where does serape come from?

Borrowed from Mexican Spanish serape.

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

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