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strand

/ˈstɹænd/noun, verb

strand is spelled S-T-R-A-N-D. The wrong spelling people search most is strnad: about 60 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 67 of all searches for the word. Strand is a noun meaning “The shore or beach of the sea or ocean”. The plural of strand is strands.

How many letters and syllables are in strand?

Letters6: S-T-R-A-N-D
Syllables1
In writing4.8 times per million words; the 11,541st most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searched1; the most searched, strnad, about 60 Bing searches a month (all of them)
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How do you spell strand?

Strand is spelled S-T-R-A-N-D. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 67 of the searches for strand in either form.

strandthe right spelling3,930 searches a month
strnada and n swapped60 searches a month

Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.

How common is strand?

Strand appears 4.8 times per million words in written English, the 11,541st 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 strand?

  • US /ˈstɹænd/
  • US [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷænd] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷænd]
  • British /ˈstɹand/

Strand has one syllable.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-strand.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with strand?

The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as strand from its last stressed vowel (/ænd/):

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 strand

  • strands plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stranding participle, present
  • stranded participle, past

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

What does strand mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.

    Grand Strand

  2. 2

    archaicThe shore or beach of a lake or river.

  3. 3

    A small brook or rivulet.

  4. 4

    ScotlandUKA passage for water; gutter.

  5. 5

    A street.

  6. 6

    Each of the strings which, twisted together, make up a yarn, rope or cord.

  7. 7

    A string.

  8. 8

    An individual length of any fine, string-like substance.

    strand of spaghetti

  9. 9

    A group of wires, usually twisted or braided.

  10. 10

    A series of programmes on a particular theme or linked subject.

  11. 11

    An element in a composite whole; a sequence of linked events or facts; a logical thread.

    strand of truth

  12. 12

    A nucleotide chain.

  13. 13

    A specialization of a senior high school track.

verb

  1. 1

    To run aground; to beach.

  2. 2

    To leave (someone) in a difficult situation; to abandon or desert.

  3. 3

    To cause the third out of an inning to be made, leaving a runner on base.

    Jones pops up; that's going to strand a pair.

  4. 4

    To leave an element (e.g., an adposition) without its complement adjacent to it.

  5. 5

    To break a strand of (a rope).

  6. 6

    To form by uniting strands.

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

How do you abbreviate strand?

Wiktionary records one abbreviation of strand: strd.

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

Strand in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchgrève (beach), échouer (to run aground), abandonner (to leave someone in a difficult situation), brin, toron (each of strings that make up yarn, rope or cord), cordelette (string)
GermanStrand (beach), im Stich lassen (to leave someone in a difficult situation), Strang (string), Strähne (individual length of string-like substance)
Portuguesepraia (beach), encalhar (to run aground), abandonar (to leave someone in a difficult situation), cordel (string), madeixa, mecha (individual length of string-like substance)
Spanishplaya (beach), varar (to run aground), abandonar (to leave someone in a difficult situation), hebra, filástica (each of strings that make up yarn, rope or cord), estoperol (string)

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.

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