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shrinkwrap

noun, verb

shrinkwrap is spelled S-H-R-I-N-K-W-R-A-P: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shrinkwrap means “Alternative form of shrink-wrap” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shrinkwrap is shrinkwraps.

How many letters and syllables are in shrinkwrap?

Letters10: S-H-R-I-N-K-W-R-A-P
In writingabout once in every 41 million words; the 196,618th 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 shrinkwrap?

Shrinkwrap appears about once in every 41 million words in written English, the 196,618th 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 shrinkwrap

  • shrinkwraps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • shrinkwrapping participle, present
  • shrinkwrapped participle, past

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

What does shrinkwrap mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of shrink-wrap.

verb

  1. 1

    Alternative form of shrink-wrap.

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

Where does shrinkwrap come from?

From shrink + wrap.

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

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