string
/stɹɪŋ/noun, verb
string is spelled S-T-R-I-N-G. The wrong spelling people search most is sring: about 80 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. String is a noun meaning “A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together”. The plural of string is strings.
How many letters and syllables are in string?
| Letters | 6: S-T-R-I-N-G |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 25 times per million words; the 3,612th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, sring, about 80 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Rhymes with |
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); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell string?
String is spelled S-T-R-I-N-G. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 68 of the searches for string in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is string?
String appears 25 times per million words in written English, the 3,612th 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 string?
- US /stɹɪŋ/
String has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-string.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with string?
The 12 most written words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as string from its last stressed vowel (/ɪŋ/):
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of string
- strings plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- stringing participle, present
- strung past, participle
- stringed past, participle
- strang past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does string mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A long, thin and flexible structure made from threads twisted together.
She bought cotton thread to use to make string.
- 2
Control; influence.
I always know what position he'll take because the Chairwoman of the Board has her string on him.
- 3
The conditions and limitations in a contract collectively.
The deal sounds good, but what are the strings?
- 4
A controlling inner sense, emotion, memory, etc.
tug on the heart strings
- 5
Control over the basketball in a game; the state of being in sync as a team, as if connected by a string.
You have to get the ball on an absolute string.
- 6
Any similar long, thin and flexible material.
The headdress's frame is made with strings of gold.
- 7
A length of nylon or other material comprising the webbing on the head of a racquet or the mesh pocket of a lacrosse stick.
- 8
The tough fibrous substance that unites the valves of the pericarp of leguminous plants.
the strings of beans; a string bean
verb
- 1
To put (items) on a string.
You can string these beads on to this cord to make a colorful necklace.
- 2
To put strings on (something).
It is difficult to string a tennis racket properly.
- 3
To form into a string or strings, as a substance which is stretched, or people who are moving along, etc.
- 4
To drive the ball against the end of the table and back, in order to determine which player is to open the game.
- 5
To deliberately state that a certain bird is present when it is not; to knowingly mislead other birders about the occurrence of a bird, especially a rarity; to misidentify a common bird as a rare species.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you abbreviate string?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of string: str.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
String in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | corde , suite, série , chaîne de caractères , enfiler |
| German | Schnur , Zeichenkette, String , auffädeln, einfädeln , Saite |
| Portuguese | barbante, corda, fio , cadeia de caracteres , enfileirar , cordas |
| Spanish | cuerda, mecate ("cordel" or "cuerda"), cordel, piola, piolín, bramante |
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 string come from?
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).