stripe
/stɹaɪp/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.51 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
noun
A long, narrow mark left by striking someone with a whip or stick; a blow or lash with a whip, stick, or scourge.
noun
A slash cut into the flesh as a punishment.
noun
A pattern produced by arranging the warp threads in sets of alternating colours, or in sets presenting some other contrast of appearance.
Example Sentences
- "zebra stripes"
- "8 Sep 2019, Peter Conrad in The Guardian, Sontag: Her Life by Benjamin Moser review – heavyweight study of a critical colossus At first, what mattered was the sparky contents of Sontag’s head; by the end she was best known for the way she wore her hair – that saturnine battle helmet of dyed black, with a single stripe left white at the temple like a Frankensteinian lightning bolt of intellect."
- "persons of the same political stripe"
- "a tyrant of a very different stripe"
- "20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along? Everyone I spoke to had waved flags at Prince William and Kate Middleton’s wedding, had camped out for Diana’s funeral and, in some cases, her ill-fated wedding. (No one mentioned going to Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson’s now all-but forgotten wedding, and yet the awkward truth is that Harry and Meghan’s marriage is no more significant than that one was, in terms of lineage.) Not being a royalist of any stripe, I’d not been to any of those."
- "Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness!"
Etymology
From Middle English stripe, strype, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German strîpe, from Proto-West Germanic *strīpā, *strīpō, from Proto-Germanic *strīpô. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Striepe (“stripe, strip”), West Frisian stripe (“stripe”), Dutch streep (“stripe”), German Low German Striepe, Striep, Streep (“stripe”), German Streifen (“stripe, strip, band”), Danish stribe (“stripe”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: stripe, -, strîpe, *strīpā, *strīpô
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /stɹaɪp/
- British English: /stɹaɪp/