stria
/ˈstɹaɪə/
"stria" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stria” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
Corpus desk
Index EN-stria · stria · English
stria · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stria |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈstɹaɪə/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “stria” in English
Rare enough to double-check
stria is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈstɹaɪə/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for stria, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin stria (“furrow”). The correct English form is stria, spelled S-T-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1A stripe, usually one of a set of parallel stripes.
- 2One of the fillets between the flutes of columns, etc.
- 3A stretch mark.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin stria (“furrow”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.