string
/stɹɪŋ/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.40 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "She bought cotton thread to use to make string."
- "I need three strings to complete the project."
- "Round Ormond's knee thou tiest the mystic string."
- "I always know what position he'll take because the Chairwoman of the Board has her string on him."
- "You have to keep the piece with your mother-in-law, because mothers always have strings in their child."
- ""Mr. Chairman, it gives me pleasure to mention the name of Mr. J. M. Blake as one of the delegates from this ward; and I can confidently assure the house that if he is made a delegate he can be counted on to represent the whole people and cater only to their wishes, as it is well known that no one has had or ever can have a string on him.""
Etymology
From Middle English string, streng, strynge, from Old English strenġ, from Proto-West Germanic *strangi, from Proto-Germanic *strangiz (“string”), from Proto-Indo-European *strengʰ- (“rope, cord, strand; to tighten”). Cognate with Scots string (“string”), Dutch streng (“cord, strand”), Low German strenge (“strand, cord, rope”), German Strang (“strand, cord, rope”), Danish streng (“string”), Swedish sträng (“string, cord, wire”), Icelandic strengur (“string”), Latvian stringt (“to be tight, wither”), Latin stringō (“to tighten”), Ancient Greek στραγγαλόομαι (strangalóomai, “to strangle”), from στραγγάλη (strangálē, “halter”), Ancient Greek στραγγός (strangós, “tied together, entangled, twisted”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *strengʰ-, string, strenġ, *strangi, *strangiz, stryngen
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stɹɪŋ/
- British English: /stɹɪŋ/