Car wash or carwash?
car wash is a noun meaning “An event at which people (often students) wash cars, often for a small fee or…”; carwash is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of car wash”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. car wash is written as two words and carwash as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between car wash and carwash?
| car wash | carwash | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | An event at which people (often students) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel | Alternative spelling of car wash |
| Example | I'm going to take the car to the car wash | none recorded |
| Forms | none | carwashes |
| Pronunciation | /ˈkɑɹ ˌwɑʃ/ /ˈkɑɹ ˌwɔʃ/ | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 7 million words |
Sources: car wash and carwash 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 wash and carwash
car wash
- 1
An event at which people (often students) wash cars, often for a small fee or donation
- 2
A place at which a car is washed, usually for a fee and often mechanically by driving the car through a tunnel
I'm going to take the car to the car wash
- 3
An instance of washing a car, especially such a place
I'm going to take the car in for a car wash
carwash
- 1
Alternative spelling of car wash
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 wash or carwash?
car wash is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; carwash about once in every 7 million words.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).