strap
/stɹæp/noun, verb
strap is spelled S-T-R-A-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, strap means “A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of strap is straps.
How many letters and syllables are in strap?
| Letters | 5: S-T-R-A-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 6.2 times per million words; the 9,735th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is strap?
Strap appears 6.2 times per million words in written English, the 9,735th 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 strap?
- US /stɹæp/
- British /stɹap/
- /stɾap/
Strap has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-au-strap.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with strap?
11 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as strap from its last stressed vowel (/æp/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: parts, traps, sprat.
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 strap
- straps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- strop
- strope
- strapping participle, present
- strapped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does strap mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A long, narrow, pliable strip of leather, cloth, or the like.
- 2
A strap worn on the shoulder.
- 3
A strip of thick leather used in flogging.
- 4
Something made of such a strip, or of a part of one, or a combination of two or more for a particular use.
- 5
A piece of leather, or strip of wood covered with a suitable material, used to hone the sharpened edge of a razor; a strop.
- 6
A band, plate, or loop of metal for clasping and holding timbers or parts of a machine.
- 7
A piece of rope or metal passing around a block and used for fastening it to anything.
- 8
The flat part of the corolla in ligulate florets, as those of the white circle in the daisy.
verb
- 1
To beat or chastise with a strap; to whip, to lash.
- 2
To fasten or bind with a strap.
I strapped my son into the back seat.
- 3
To sharpen by rubbing on a strap; to strop.
to strap a razor
- 4
To slap or stroke the muscled areas of a horse with a cloth or pad, a form of massage meant to improve muscle tone.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Strap in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | sangle, courroie, lanière , bandoulière |
| German | Riemen , Achselklappe, Schulterklappe (epaulette), Schultergurt, Trageriemen , Streichriemen |
| Portuguese | faixa, tira , lima , cinta , tira(s), barbicacho |
| Spanish | correa, cincha, cincho, tirante, baticola, tiracol |
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.
Where does strap come from?
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”)).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).