strides
"strides" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strides” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #19,477. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,477
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 19
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trousers.
Corpus desk
Index EN-strides · strides · English
strides · rank #19,477 · 11 variants · 19 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,477
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 19 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH strung
Nearest frequency peer: strung (+1 rank slots)
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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “strides”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- startled
startled
80,528 corpus weight
- steaks
steaks
80,527 corpus weight
- Stephenson
Stephenson
80,526 corpus weight
- strides
strides
80,524 corpus weight
- strung
strung
80,523 corpus weight
- T2
T2
80,520 corpus weight
What this shows “strides” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | strides |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #19,477 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 19 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “strides”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around strides, anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,477 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Trousers.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for strides, with forms such as "srtides", "sstrides", and "stirdes". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 19 confusable-pair relationships, "strike", "strips", "strive", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is strides, spelled S-T-R-I-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Trousers.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how strides appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
2004, Marion Houldsworth, Red Dust Rising: The Story of Ray Fryer of Urapunga, Central Queensland University Press, 2011, Boolarong Press, page 97, So he gave him one boot. I said, ‘One boot′s no bloody good! Give him two boot[s]!’ So he chucks over another boot, and a pair of strides.
He went upstairs and changed into a fresh pair of strides, nipped into the bathroom and gave his hands and face a quick rinse and threw on a clean pullover.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtides
- sstrides
- stirdes
- strdies
- striddes
- stridess
- stridse
- strieds
- strrides
- sttrides
- tsrides
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strides - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "strides", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).