# strand

> English word · Noun · IPA /stɹænd/ · frequency rank #11,615

## Definitions
1. The shore or beach of the sea or ocean.
2. The shore or beach of a lake or river.
3. A small brook or rivulet.
4. A passage for water; gutter.
5. A street.

## Etymology
* From Middle English strand, strond, from Old English strand (“strand, sea-shore, shore”), from Proto-West Germanic *strand, from Proto-Germanic *strandō (“edge, rim, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)trAnt- (“strand, border, field”), from Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- (“to broaden, spread out”). Cognate with West Frisian strân, Dutch strand, German Strand, Danish strand, Swedish strand, Norwegian Bokmål strand, Icelandic strönd.
* (street): Perhaps from the similarity of shape.

## Easily confused with
- **straw** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-straw)
- **strap** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-strap)
- **stray** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-stray)
- **strat** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-strat)
- **strong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-strong)
- **string** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-string)
- **strung** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-strung)
- **strata** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-strata)
- **Stroud** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-stroud)
- **Straus** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-straus)
- **strange** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-strange)
- **stranded** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/strand-vs-stranded)
- **sand** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/sand-vs-strand)
- **stan** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stan-vs-strand)
- **stand** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stand-vs-strand)
- **stead** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stead-vs-strand)
- **stank** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stank-vs-strand)
- **saran** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/saran-vs-strand)
- **staid** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/staid-vs-strand)
- **stands** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/stands-vs-strand)

## Common misspellings (10)
`srtand`, `sstrand`, `starnd`, `stradn`, `strandd`, `strannd`, `strnad`, `strrand`, `sttrand`, `tsrand`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/strand