strips
/stɹɪps/
"strips" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“strips” has 10 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #8,861. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,861
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of strip
Corpus desk
Index EN-strips · strips · English
strips · rank #8,861 · 10 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,861
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH sovereignty
Nearest frequency peer: sovereignty (-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 “strips”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- smiled
smiled
91,144 corpus weight
- snakes
snakes
91,142 corpus weight
- sovereignty
sovereignty
91,141 corpus weight
- strips
strips
91,140 corpus weight
- stunt
stunt
91,139 corpus weight
- subjected
subjected
91,138 corpus weight
What this shows “strips” 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 | strips |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /stɹɪps/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #8,861 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “strips”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around strips (IPA /stɹɪps/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,861 among 6,566 “S” headwords. Dominant gloss: "plural of strip".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for strips, with forms such as "srtips", "sstrips", and "stirps". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "strive", "stumps", "steps", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is strips, spelled S-T-R-I-P-S.
Definition
- 1plural of strip
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- srtips
- sstrips
- stirps
- stripps
- stripss
- strisp
- strpis
- strrips
- sttrips
- tsrips
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of strips - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "strips", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).