street
/stɹit/noun, adjective, verb
street is spelled S-T-R-E-E-T: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 191 times per million words in written English, the 531st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, street means “A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of street is streets.
How many letters and syllables are in street?
| Letters | 6: S-T-R-E-E-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 191 times per million words; the 531st 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 street?
Street appears 191 times per million words in written English, the 531st 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 street?
- UK /stɹiːt/
- [ʃt͡ʃɹiːt]
- US /stɹit/
Street 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-uk-a_street.ogg, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Xavier_hillier-street.wav, En-us-street.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with street?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as street from its last stressed vowel (/it/):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: tester, setter, retest.
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 street
- streets plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- more street comparative
- most street superlative
- streeting participle, present
- streeted participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does street mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A paved part of road, usually in a village or a town.
Walk down the street until you see a hotel on the right.
- 2
A road as above, but including the sidewalks (pavements) and buildings.
I live on the street down from Joyce Avenue.
- 3
CanadaUSThe roads that run perpendicular to avenues in a grid layout.
- 4
The people who live in such a road, as a neighborhood.
- 5
The people who spend a great deal of time on the street in urban areas, especially, the young, the poor, the unemployed, and those engaged in illegal activities.
- 6
An illicit or contraband source, especially of drugs.
I got some pot cheap on the street.
- 7
Ellipsis of Wall Street.
Orders were reported to have increased 2% monthly, ahead of the 1.2% expected by the street.
- 8
Living in the streets.
a street cat
adjective
- 1
slangHaving street cred; conforming to modern urban trends.
verb
- 1
To build or equip with streets.
- 2
To eject; to throw onto the streets.
- 3
To heavily defeat.
- 4
To go on sale.
- 5
To proselytize in public.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate street?
Wiktionary records 2 abbreviations of street: St., str.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Street in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense paved part of road in a village or a town:
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.