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Stripy

Definition: Stripy

Stripy

Adjective

1. Marked or decorated with stripes.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "stripy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Synonym: Stripy

Synonym: striped (adj). (additional references)

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Commercial Usage: Stripy

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Stripy

"Stripy" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Stripy" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4352,181

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Stripy

Language Translations for "stripy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏مخطط (barred, blueprint, controlled, guided, planned, projects, ruled, schema, scheme, sketch, streaked, striped). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

раиран (striped). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stribet tegning (stripy figure). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

streeptekening (stripy figure). (various references)

   

French

  

bois rubanné (stripy figure). (various references)

   

German

  

gestreiftes Holz (stripy figure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ριγέ (striped). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

csíkos (banded, barred, brindled, laced, streaked, streaky, striate, striated, striped). (various references)

   

Italian

  

legno con effetto rigatino (stripy figure). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ipystray

   

Portuguese

  

madeira raiada (stripy figure), desenho raiado (stripy figure). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

полосатый (brindled, ribbed, streaky, striated, striped, tabby). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

madera rayada (stripy figure). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

randig (lined, striped, tabby, zebra). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

có vằn (mottled, striate, striated, striped), có sọc (fasciated, striate, striated, striped). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Stripy

Misspellings

"Stripy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: setrip, strepp, strept, strimp, stript, strophy, stropy, sttrep, trippy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Stripy

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "i-p-r-s-t-y"

-1 letter: spirt, spiry, sprit, stirp, strip, tipsy, trips.

-2 letters: pits, pity, rips, spit, spry, stir, tips, trip, yips.

-3 letters: its, pis, pit, pry, psi, rip, sip, sir, sit, spy, sri, sty, tip, tis, try, yip.

-4 letters: is, it, pi, si, ti.

 Words containing the letters "i-p-r-s-t-y"
 

+1 letter: pyrites, trypsin.

 

+2 letters: asperity, isotropy, papistry, porosity, priestly, pyritous, sparsity, sportily, trypsins, yperites.

 

+3 letters: baptistry, disparity, drypoints, palmistry, peristyle, piscatory, posterity, prettyish, sophistry, splintery, sprightly, supercity, sympatric, triglyphs, triptycas, triptychs, typifiers.

 

+4 letters: anisotropy, baptistery, copyrights, depositary, depository, dystrophic, epistolary, expository, hypocrites, interplays, panegyrist, paralytics, partisanly, peristyles, perversity, pityriases, pityriasis, polyhistor, preciosity, prehistory, pristinely, propensity, prosperity, psychiatry, pterygiums, pterygoids, pyrethrins, pyrolusite, repository, sperrylite, sphericity, spinsterly, spiritedly, spirometry, sportingly, sportively, suretyship, sympatries, typescript, typewrites.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Bibliography


  

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