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strim

/stɹɪm/verb

strim is spelled S-T-R-I-M: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, strim means “To cut using a strimmer/string trimmer” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in strim?

Letters5: S-T-R-I-M
In writingabout once in every 74 million words; the 272,462nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

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).

How common is strim?

Strim appears about once in every 74 million words in written English, the 272,462nd 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 strim?

  • /stɹɪm/

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

Forms of strim

  • strims present, singular, he/she/it
  • strimming participle, present
  • strimmed participle, past

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

What does strim mean?

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

verb

  1. 1

    UKTo cut using a strimmer/string trimmer.

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

Where does strim come from?

Back-formation from strimmer, originally a trademark.

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

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