streak
/stɹiːk/noun, verb
streak is spelled S-T-R-E-A-K: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, streak means “An irregular line, as is left from smearing or motion” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of streak is streaks.
How many letters and syllables are in streak?
| Letters | 6: S-T-R-E-A-K |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 11 times per million words; the 6,456th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| 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 streak?
Streak appears 11 times per million words in written English, the 6,456th 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 streak?
- /stɹiːk/
Streak 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-us-streak.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with streak?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as streak.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: skater, tasker, strake, staker.
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 streak
- streaks plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- streaking participle, present
- streaked participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does streak mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
An irregular line, as is left from smearing or motion.
The picture I took out the car window had streaks.
- 2
A band, line or stripe.
A streak of light on the horizon.
- 3
A continuous series of like events.
I hope I can keep up this streak of accomplishments.
- 4
A measure of activity that tracks how many consecutive days a certain interaction with another user or a service has taken place, a form of gamification to drive user engagement.
- 5
A consistent facet of somebody's personality.
a mean streak
- 6
A tendency or characteristic, but not a dominant or pervasive one.
She's a quiet, bookish person, but she has a rebellious streak.
- 7
The color of the powder of a mineral, so called, because a simple field test for a mineral is to streak it against unglazed white porcelain.
- 8
A moth of the family Geometridae, Chesias legatella.
Streak (moth) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
verb
- 1
To have or obtain streaks.
If you clean a window in direct sunlight, it will streak.
- 2
To run quickly.
- 3
To run naked in public.
It was a pleasant game until some guy went streaking across the field.
- 4
To move very swiftly.
- 5
To create streaks upon.
You will streak a window by cleaning it in direct sunlight.
- 6
ScotlandUKobsoleteTo stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Streak in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | raie , chésias du genêt |
| German | Schliere , Später Ginsterspanner , schlieren , flitzen |
| Portuguese | risco , série |
| Spanish | raya, trazo , sarta, racha, ristra, serie |
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 streak come from?
From Middle English streke, from Old English strica, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“line”). Related to North Frisian strijck, Old Saxon striki, Middle Low German streke, Low German streek, Danish streg, Swedish streck, Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk strek, Icelandic stryk, strykr, Dutch streek, Afrikaans streek, Old High German strih, German Strich, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌺𐍃 (striks).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).