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tripe

/tɹaɪp/noun, interjection

tripe is spelled T-R-I-P-E: 5 letters and one syllable. It appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, tripe means “The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of tripe is tripes.

How many letters and syllables are in tripe?

Letters5: T-R-I-P-E
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writingabout once in every 2 million words; the 41,154th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Same letters

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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is tripe?

Tripe appears about once in every 2 million words in written English, the 41,154th 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 tripe?

  • /tɹaɪp/

Tripe has one syllable (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-tripe.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with tripe?

No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as tripe.

Spelled with the same letters in another order: petri.

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 tripe

  • tripes plural

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

What does tripe mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    The lining of the large stomach of ruminating animals, when prepared for food.

  2. 2

    The entrails; (by extension, humorous or derogatory) the belly.

    Next morning Miss Dolly complained of her Tripes; / Drinking cold water had given her gripes.

  3. 3

    derogatorySomething foolish or valueless, especially written works and popular entertainment (movies, television).

  4. 4

    An edible lichen, especially rock tripe.

interjection

  1. 1

    derogatoryThat (what has just been said) is untrue.

noun

as Tripe
  1. 1

    datedslangSynonym of Tripehound (“Sopwith Triplane”).

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

Tripe in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchtripes (stomach lining of animal for food), tripe (entrails – see also entrails, offal), bêtise (something valueless)
GermanKutteln, Kaldaunen (stomach lining of animal for food), Eingeweide (entrails – see also entrails, offal), Schund, Mumpitz (something valueless)
Portuguesedobrada, tripas (stomach lining of animal for food), tripa (entrails – see also entrails, offal), lixo (something valueless)
Spanishtripa, menudos, mondongo (stomach lining of animal for food), menudo (something valueless)

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 tripe come from?

From Middle English tripe, from Old French tripe (“entrails”), of uncertain origin; possibly borrowed from Spanish tripa.

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

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