strap
/stɹæp/
"strap" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strap” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,825. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,825
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strap · strap · English
strap · rank #9,825 · 8 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,825
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH starving
Nearest frequency peer: starving (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “strap”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- stained
stained
90,179 corpus weight
- stall
stall
90,178 corpus weight
- starving
starving
90,177 corpus weight
- strap
strap
90,176 corpus weight
- subjective
subjective
90,175 corpus weight
- surround
surround
90,174 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “strap” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strap |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /stɹæp/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #9,825 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “strap” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around strap (IPA /stɹæp/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,825 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Wiktionary lists 15 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for strap, with forms such as "srtap", "sstrap", and "starp". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "swap", "sura", "strip", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“st… The correct English form is strap, spelled S-T-R-A-P.
Definition
- 1A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- 2A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- 3A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- 4Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- 5A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- 6A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
- 7A narrow strip of anything, as of iron or brass.
- 8The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
- 9The leaf, exclusive of its sheath, in some grasses.
- 10A gun, normally a personal firearm such as a pistol or machine pistol.
- 11Credit offered to a customer, especially for alcoholic drink.
- 12A strap-on.
- 13Synonym of strapline.
- 14A championship belt, or by extension, the title.
- 15An investment strategy involving simultaneous trade with one put and two call options on the same security at the same strike price, similar to but more bullish than a straddle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strap appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.
a lively cobbler, that […] had scarce passed a day in his life without giving her [his wife] the discipline of the strap.
Etymology
From a variant of earlier strope (“loop on a harness”), from Middle English strope, stroppe, from Late Old English strop, stropp (“a band, thong, strap; oar-thong”) and Old French estrope (“strap, loop on a harness”), both from Latin stroppus, struppus (“strap”), from Ancient Greek στρόφος (stróphos, “rope”) (compare strophe), from στρέφω (stréphō, “to twist”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *strebʰ- (compare Proto-West Germanic *stroppōn (“to twist, writhe”)). Cognate with Scots strap, strop (“strap, band, thong”), Dutch strop (“noose, strop, loop”), Low German Strop (“strap”), German Struppe, Strüppe, Strippe (“string, cord”), Danish strop (“strap”), Swedish stropp (“strap, loop”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtap
- sstrap
- starp
- strapp
- strpa
- strrap
- sttrap
- tsrap
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strap - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "strap" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "swap". View pair
- 8 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #9,825 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.