stipe
/staɪp/noun
stipe is spelled S-T-I-P-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stipe means “The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stipe is stipes.
How many letters and syllables are in stipe?
| Letters | 5: S-T-I-P-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 2 million words; the 40,267th 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 stipe?
Stipe appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 40,267th 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 stipe?
- /staɪp/
Stipe 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-stipe.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with stipe?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as stipe.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: spite, piste.
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 stipe
- stipes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stipe mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The stem of a mushroom, kelp, etc.
- 2
The trunk of a tree.
- 3
The caudicle within the pollinarium of an orchid flower
- 4
The petiole of the frond of a fern or palm
- 5
slangA stipendiary magistrate.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stipe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense stem of a mushroom:
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 stipe come from?
From French stipe, from Latin stīpes (“a stock, post, branch”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).