strategy
/ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒi/noun
strategy is spelled S-T-R-A-T-E-G-Y. The wrong spelling people search most is stradegy: about 100 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 70 of all searches for the word. Strategy is a noun meaning “The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare”. The plural of strategy is strategies.
How many letters and syllables are in strategy?
| Letters | 8: S-T-R-A-T-E-G-Y |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 55 times per million words; the 1,865th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 3; the most searched, stradegy, about 100 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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).
How do you spell strategy?
Strategy is spelled S-T-R-A-T-E-G-Y. 3 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 38 of the searches for strategy 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 strategy?
Strategy appears 55 times per million words in written English, the 1,865th 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 strategy?
- UK /ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒɪ/
- US /ˈstɹæt.ɪ.d͡ʒi/
- US [ˈstɹæɾ.ɪ.d͡ʒi]
Strategy has 3 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). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-strategy.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of strategy
- strategies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does strategy mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- 2
A plan of action intended to accomplish a specific goal.
Oftentimes, the very simple strategies pay very great dividends.
- 3
The act of strategizing; the development of effective strategies.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate strategy?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of strategy: strat.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Strategy in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense science and art of military command:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | stratégie |
| German | Strategie, Kriegskunde |
| Portuguese | estratégia |
| Spanish | estrategia |
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.