Car park or carpark?
car park is a noun meaning “An outdoor area or a building where cars may be parked”; carpark is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of car park”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. car park is written as two words and carpark as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between car park and carpark?
| car park | carpark | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | CommonwealthIrelandAn outdoor area or a building where cars may be parked AustraliaCommonwealthIrelandA rectangular section, usually marked by painted lines, designated for the parking of a single car | Alternative spelling of car park |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | none | carparks |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkɑːpɑːk/ /ˈkɑɹ ˌpɑːɹk/ | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 3 million words |
Sources: car park and carpark 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 car park and carpark
car park
- 1
CommonwealthIrelandAn outdoor area or a building where cars may be parked
- 2
AustraliaCommonwealthIrelandA rectangular section, usually marked by painted lines, designated for the parking of a single car
- 3
CommonwealthIrelandA road with serious traffic congestion preventing the movement of vehicles
carpark
- 1
Alternative spelling of car park
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, car park or carpark?
car park is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; carpark about once in every 3 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).