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str

/ˈstɚ/noun, adjective, adverb

str is spelled S-T-R: 3 letters. It appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, str means “Abbreviation of string(s)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of str is strs.

How many letters and syllables are in str?

Letters3: S-T-R
In writing1.9 times per million words; the 20,356th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is str?

Str appears 1.9 times per million words in written English, the 20,356th 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 str?

  • US /ˈstɚ/

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

What rhymes with str?

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

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 str

  • strs plural
  • str.

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

What does str mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of string(s).

    str.-quartet

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of steamer, a vessel propelled by steam.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of string (“sequence of text characters”).

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of strain.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of strength.

  6. 6

    Abbreviation of stremma(ta), a Greek unit of land area now equivalent to the decare (1000 m²).

  7. 7

    Abbreviation of street.

noun

as STR
  1. 1

    Initialism of short tandem repeat.

    These observations lead us to predict that structural genomic variants are as important as SNPs, short tandem repeats (STRs) and other small changes in their contribution to genome variation.

  2. 2

    Initialism of suspicious transaction report.

  3. 3

    Initialism of suspend to RAM.

  4. 4

    Initialism of strength point.

  5. 5

    Initialism of sell-through rate.

adjective

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of strong.

    str-emergent

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of strict.

  3. 3

    Abbreviation of straight.

adverb

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of strongly.

  2. 2

    Abbreviation of strictly.

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

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