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stretcher

/ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/noun, verb

stretcher is spelled S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R: 9 letters and 2 syllables. It appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, stretcher means “Someone or something that stretches” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of stretcher is stretchers.

How many letters and syllables are in stretcher?

Letters9: S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R
Syllables2 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing1.7 times per million words; the 21,516th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is stretcher?

Stretcher appears 1.7 times per million words in written English, the 21,516th 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 stretcher?

  • UK /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃə/
  • US /ˈstɹɛt͡ʃɚ/
  • Australia /ˈstɹet͡ʃə/

Stretcher has 2 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: En-au-stretcher.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of stretcher

  • stretchers plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • stretchering participle, present
  • stretchered participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does stretcher mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Someone or something that stretches.

  2. 2

    A simple litter designed to carry a sick, injured, or dead person.

  3. 3

    A frame on which a canvas is stretched for painting.

  4. 4

    A device to stretch shoes or gloves.

  5. 5

    A brick laid with the longest (but least tall) side exposed.

  6. 6

    A piece of timber used in building.

  7. 7

    slangA lie; an overstretching of the truth.

  8. 8

    A board against which a rower places his feet.

verb

  1. 1

    To carry (an injured person) on a stretcher.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Stretcher in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchcivière, brancard (simple litter designed to carry a sick…), châssis (frame on which a canvas is stretched for…), panneresse (brick laid with the longest side exposed), brancarder (to carry on a stretcher)
GermanTrage, Tragbahre, Bahre (simple litter designed to carry a sick…)
Portuguesemaca (simple litter designed to carry a sick…)
Spanishcamilla, parihuela, angarilla (simple litter designed to carry a sick…), bastidor (frame on which a canvas is stretched for…), ensanchador, horma (device to stretch shoes or gloves)

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 stretcher come from?

From stretch + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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