strips

\stʁip\

/\stʁip\/ noun

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The verdict

“strips” is uncommon French (frequency #60,398 among 6,032 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#60,398
frequency rank, French
6,032
“S” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de strip.

Corpus desk

Index FR-strips · strips · French

strips · rank #60,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #60,398
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-1 1 vowel
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,032
  • PHOTO-FINISH strident

Nearest frequency peer: strident (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « strips »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « strips » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for strips
PropertyValue
Headwordstrips
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\stʁip\
Letters6
Frequency rank#60,398
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « strips » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.stripstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « strident » (#60,397), « stroke » (#60,399), « stratigraphie » (#60,396). Parmi 6,032 lemmes en « S », « strips » est au #60,398. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

strips is uncommon French at frequency #60,398 among 6,032 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \stʁip\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de strip.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for strips in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is strips, spelled S-T-R-I-P-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de strip.

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "strips"?
"strips" is spelled S-T-R-I-P-S. The IPA pronunciation is \stʁip\.
What does "strips" mean?
As a noun, "strips" means: Pluriel de strip.
How do you pronounce "strips"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "strips" is \stʁip\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "strips" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "strips", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

stroke#60,399sourie#60,389sérums#60,417taxons#60,422

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list