str8
"str8" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“str8” is uncommon English (frequency #87,868 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,868
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Informal form of straight.
Corpus desk
Index EN-str8 · str8 · English
str8 · rank #87,868 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,868
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH stomata
Nearest frequency peer: stomata (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “str8”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- steller
steller
12,137 corpus weight
- sterol
sterol
12,135 corpus weight
- stomata
stomata
12,134 corpus weight
- str8
str8
12,133 corpus weight
- strafe
strafe
12,132 corpus weight
- Strathcona
Strathcona
12,131 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “str8” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | str8 |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #87,868 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “str8” in English
Rare enough to double-check
str8 is uncommon English at frequency #87,868 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for str8 in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is str8, spelled S-T-R-8.
Definition
- 1Informal form of straight.
- 2Informal form of straight.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how str8 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Whatever was guiding him took him to the Men-Seeking-Men personal ads: “Any str8 men bi-curious?”
I analyzed all of the 125 ads placed by str8 men “seeking same” from May through July of 2006.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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