stride
/stɹaɪd/verb, noun
stride is spelled S-T-R-I-D-E: 6 letters and one syllable. It appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, stride means “To walk with long steps” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
How many letters and syllables are in stride?
| Letters | 6: S-T-R-I-D-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.7 times per million words; the 16,455th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none 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 stride?
Stride appears 2.7 times per million words in written English, the 16,455th 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 stride?
- /stɹaɪd/
- /stɹɛɪd/
Stride 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-stride.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stride
- strides present, singular, he/she/it, plural
- striding participle, present
- strode past, participle
- stridden participle, past
- strid participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stride mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
verb
- 1
To walk with long steps.
- 2
To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle.
- 3
To pass over at a step; to step over.
- 4
To straddle.
noun
- 1
A long step in walking.
She set off with a purposeful stride.
- 2
The distance covered by a long step.
- 3
The number of memory locations between successive elements in an array, pixels in a bitmap, etc.
- 4
A jazz piano style of the 1920s and 1930s. The left hand characteristically plays a four-beat pulse with a single bass note, octave, seventh or tenth interval on the first and third beats, and a chord on the second and fourth beats.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stride in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | enjamber arpenter , enjambée |
| German | schreiten |
| Portuguese | andar com passos largos |
| Spanish | dar zancadas, caminar a zancadas, andar a zancajadas, marchar a trancos, ambular a trancadas , zancada |
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 stride come from?
From Middle English striden, from Old English strīdan (“stride”), from Proto-West Germanic *strīdan, from Proto-Germanic *strīdaną. Cognate with Low German striden (“to fight, to stride”), Dutch strijden (“to fight”), German streiten (“to fight, to quarrel”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).