Living room or livingroom?
living room is a noun meaning “A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities”; livingroom is a noun meaning “Alternative form of living room”. living room is written as two words and livingroom as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between living room and livingroom?
| living room | livingroom | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities Land intended for settlers | Alternative form of living room |
| Example | Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing… | none recorded |
| Forms | living-rooms | livingrooms |
| Pronunciation | /ˈlɪvɪŋ ɹuːm/ | not recorded |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | about once in every 7 million words |
Sources: living room and livingroom 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 living room and livingroom
living room
- 1
A room in a private house used for general social and leisure activities
Near-synonyms: lounge (esp. UK), loungeroom, lounge room (esp. Australia), sitting room, parlour, parlor, foreroom, front room, drawing room, zitkamer
- 2
Alternative form of living room
- 3
Land intended for settlers
livingroom
- 1
Alternative form of living room
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, living room or livingroom?
living room is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; livingroom 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).
How many people search living room vs livingroom?
“living room vs livingroom” is searched about 10 times a month on Bing (Google reports it together with close variants, so it has no figure of its own) in the United States.
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