stripling

Other forms of stripling

plural

striplings·

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 stripling

What does stripling mean?

stripling means "a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity".

How many syllables are in stripling?

stripling has 2 syllables: strip-ling. The stress falls on "strip". In IPA it is /ˈstɹɪplɪŋ/.

What is another word for stripling?

Close synonyms include adolescent, teenager, teen. 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 stripling a common word?

stripling is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.