strawberry
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Detailed reference entry for the English word "strawberry", 10-letters, with pronunciation in International Phonetic Alphabet notation, etymology traced through Germanic and Romance roots where applicable, common misspelling variants catalogued from Hunspell error dictionaries, and usage frequency ranked against the top 100,000 English words in the Wordfreq corpus. PlainSpell covers English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German spelling with confusable-pair detection that highlights visually and phonetically similar words. This entry for "strawberry" includes synonyms, antonyms, homophones, and cross-language translation pointers sourced from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org extract. Whether you are verifying the correct spelling of "strawberry" for academic writing, checking homophone confusion, or exploring etymological origins, this page provides a citation-backed, free reference that requires no sign-up.
strawberry is aEnglishnoun. It means: The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria. Pronounced /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/.
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|---|---|
| Headword | strawberry |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #10,941 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The English entry for strawberry is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˈstɹɔːb(ə)ɹi/. Corpus data places it at rank #10,941 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for strawberry, with forms such as "srtawberry", "sstrawberry", and "starwberry". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew-der. Proto-Germanic *strawą Proto-West Germanic *strau Old English strēaw Proto-Germanic *bazją Proto-West Germanic *baʀi Old English berġe Old English str… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is strawberry, spelled S-T-R-A-W-B-E-R-R-Y, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1The sweet, usually red, edible accessory fruit of certain plants of the genus Fragaria.
- 2Any plant of the genus Fragaria (that bears such fruit).
- 3The berry of the strawberry tree (Arbutus)
- 4A dark pinkish red color, like that of the fruit; strawberry red.
- 5Something resembling a strawberry, especially a reddish bruise, birthmark, or infantile hemangioma (naevus).
- 6A prostitute who exchanges sexual services for crack cocaine.
- 7A butt plug with one end shaped like a strawberry fruit.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ster-der. Proto-Indo-European *sterh₃- Proto-Indo-European *strew-der. Proto-Germanic *strawą Proto-West Germanic *strau Old English strēaw Proto-Germanic *bazją Proto-West Germanic *baʀi Old English berġe Old English strēawberġe Middle English strawbery English strawberry From Middle English strawbery, strauberi, from Old English strēawberġe, corresponding to straw + berry. Of various theories advanced to explain the name, the two most plausible are: # from the fact that wild strawberries grow on stalk-like runners, compare Norwegian stråbær (“European cranberry”, which grows in a similar way); # from the practice, still common in parts of Europe, of gathering strawberries by stringing them on a straw or stalk (because wild strawberries melt quickly when gathered in a bucket).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: srtawberry,sstrawberry,starwberry,strabwerry,strawbberry,strawberryy,strawbery,strawberyr,strawbrery,strawebrry,strawwberry,strrawberry,strwaberry,sttrawberry,tsrawberry
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Misspelling Variants of "strawberry"
Frequency rank: #10,941 in English
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