strength
/ˈstɹɛŋθ/noun
strength is spelled S-T-R-E-N-G-T-H. The wrong spelling people search most is strenght: about 470 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 12 of all searches for the word. Strength is a noun meaning “The quality or degree of being strong”. The plural of strength is strengths.
How many letters and syllables are in strength?
| Letters | 8: S-T-R-E-N-G-T-H |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 63 times per million words; the 1,668th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 4; the most searched, strenght, about 470 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; 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 strength?
Strength is spelled S-T-R-E-N-G-T-H. 4 wrong spellings are searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 10 of the searches for strength 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 strength?
Strength appears 63 times per million words in written English, the 1,668th 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 strength?
- /ˈstɹɛŋθ/
- [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɛŋθ] ~ [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɛŋθ]
- /ˈstɹɛnθ/
Strength has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: Strength.wav, En-us-strength.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of strength
- strengths plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- strengthing participle, present
- strengthed participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does strength mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
The quality or degree of being strong.
It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
- 2
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
He had the strength of ten men.
- 3
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- 4
A positive attribute.
to play to one's strengths
- 5
obsoleteAn armed force, a body of troops.
- 6
obsoleteA strong place; a stronghold.
- 7
The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo strengthen (all senses).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate strength?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of strength: str.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Strength in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | force, vigueur, effectif , point fort |
| German | Stärke, Kraft, Festigkeit, Mumm |
| Portuguese | força, vigor , forte |
| Spanish | fuerza, ñeque , potencia, intensidad, polenta |
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 strength come from?
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).