stripe

1. 1.

   mark with stripes

   Broadermark

Other forms of stripe

plural

stripes·

past tense

striped·

present participle

striping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stripe

What does stripe mean?

stripe means "an adornment consisting of a strip of a contrasting color or material". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stripe?

stripe has 1 syllable: stripe. In IPA it is /ˈstɹaɪp/.

What is another word for stripe?

Close synonyms include band, banding, chevron, stripes, grade insignia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is stripe a common word?

stripe is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with stripe?

1 word rhymes with stripe. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.