strapping
adjective, noun, verb
strapping is spelled S-T-R-A-P-P-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is straping: about 70 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 11 of all searches for the word. Strapping is an adjective meaning “Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust”.
How many letters and syllables are in strapping?
| Letters | 9: S-T-R-A-P-P-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 33,236th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, straping, about 70 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| 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); 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 strapping?
Strapping is spelled S-T-R-A-P-P-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 11 of the searches for strapping in either form.
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 strapping?
Strapping appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 33,236th 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 strapping?
Strapping has 2 syllables (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).
What rhymes with strapping?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as strapping.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: trappings.
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 strapping
- more strapping comparative
- most strapping superlative
- strappings plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does strapping mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Having a sturdy muscular physique; robust.
- 2
obsolete(of a young woman) full of vigor; lusty.
noun
- 1
Adhesive plaster for strapping injuries.
- 2
A length of narrow material to be used for straps, or straps collectively.
- 3
A beating with a strap.
- 4
The act of fastening with a strap.
verb
- 1
present participle and gerund of strap
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Strapping in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having a sturdy muscular physique; robust:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | fornido |
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.