Best seller or bestseller?
best seller is a noun meaning “Alternative form of bestseller”; bestseller is a noun meaning “A book or other product that has sold in large numbers”. best seller is written as two words and bestseller as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between best seller and bestseller?
| best seller | bestseller | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative form of bestseller | A book or other product that has sold in large numbers |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | best-sellers | bestsellers |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 2.2 times per million words |
Sources: best seller and bestseller in the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Every current meaning of best seller and bestseller
best seller
- 1
Alternative form of bestseller
- 2
Alternative form of bestseller
bestseller
- 1
A book or other product that has sold in large numbers
Source: the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0); obsolete, archaic, dialect and rare senses left out.
Which is more common, best seller or bestseller?
best seller is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; bestseller 2.2 times per million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).