strip
/ˈstɹɪp/noun, verb
strip is spelled S-T-R-I-P: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, strip means “A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of strip is strips.
How many letters and syllables are in strip?
| Letters | 5: S-T-R-I-P |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 1 |
| In writing | 23 times per million words; the 3,875th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is strip?
Strip appears 23 times per million words in written English, the 3,875th 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 strip?
- /ˈstɹɪp/
- [ˈstɹ̝̊ʷɪp]
- [ˈst̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪp]
Strip has one syllable.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-strip.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
What rhymes with strip?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as strip.
Spelled with the same letters in another order: trips, sprit.
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 strip
- strips plural, present, singular, he/she/it
- stripping participle, present
- stripped participle, past
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does strip mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A long, thin piece of land; any long, thin area.
The countries were in dispute over the ownership of a strip of desert about 100 metres wide.
- 2
A long, thin piece of any material; any such material collectively.
Papier mache is made from strips of paper.
- 3
A comic strip.
- 4
A landing strip.
- 5
A strip steak.
- 6
USA street with multiple shopping or entertainment possibilities.
- 7
The playing area, roughly 14 meters by 2 meters.
- 8
UKThe uniform of a football team, or the same worn by supporters.
- 9
The act of removing one's clothes; a striptease.
She stood up on the table and did a strip.
- 10
Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.
strip poker; strip Scrabble
verb
- 1
To remove or take away, often in strips or stripes.
Norm will strip the old varnish before painting the chair.
- 2
To take off clothing.
Seeing that no one else was about, he stripped and dived into the river.
- 3
To perform a striptease.
In the seedy club, a group of drunken men were watching a woman stripping.
- 4
To take away something from (someone or something); to plunder; to divest.
The athlete was stripped of his medal after failing a drugs test.
- 5
To remove cargo from (a container).
- 6
To remove (the thread or teeth) from a screw, nut, or gear, especially inadvertently by overtightening.
Don't tighten that bolt any more or you'll strip the thread.
- 7
To fail in the thread; to lose the thread, as a bolt, screw, or nut.
- 8
To fire (a bullet or ball) from a rifle such that it fails to pick up a spin from the rifling.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Strip in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | bande , strip , piste , enlever , se déshabiller , faire un striptease |
| German | Streifen , wegnehmen , ausziehen , strippen , abisolieren |
| Portuguese | tira , pista , tirar, retirar, remover , desnudar |
| Spanish | franja, tira, lista, lienza, listón, tirajo |
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 strip come from?
From alteration of stripe or from Middle Low German strippe, of uncertain ultimate origin, perhaps derived from a lost strong verb Proto-Germanic *strīpaną, with no clear cognates outside of Germanic except for Irish sríab (“line, stripe”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).