str8
"str8" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“str8” is uncommon English (frequency #87,868 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,868
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Informal form of straight.
| 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) |
Where “str8” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
str8 is uncommon English at frequency #87,868 among 54,294 “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.
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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Using “str8”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-R-8 - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.