stringent
/ˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/adjective
stringent is spelled S-T-R-I-N-G-E-N-T. The wrong spelling people search most is stingent: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 61 of all searches for the word. Stringent is an adjective meaning “Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe”.
How many letters and syllables are in stringent?
| Letters | 9: S-T-R-I-N-G-E-N-T |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 2.7 times per million words; the 16,455th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, stingent, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
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); 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).
How do you spell stringent?
Stringent is spelled S-T-R-I-N-G-E-N-T. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 61 of the searches for stringent 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 stringent?
Stringent 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 stringent?
- /ˈstɹɪn.d͡ʒənt/
Stringent has 2 syllables (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-stringent.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of stringent
- more stringent comparative
- most stringent superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does stringent mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe.
They have stringent quality requirements outlining what is acceptable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Stringent in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense making strict requirements:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | strict |
| German | stringent |
| Portuguese | estrito, restritivo |
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 stringent come from?
Learned borrowing from Latin stringēns, stringentem, from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- (“to stroke, to shear, stiff”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).