Motorsport or motorsports?
In American English write motorsport; in British and Commonwealth English, motorsports. motorsports is the plural of motorsport. In written English (wordfreq, 2021 data) motorsport is about 1.5 times as common as motorsports.
What is the difference between motorsport and motorsports?
| motorsport | motorsports | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | auto racing Any sport involving automobiles (motor cars) other than racing; e.g. time trials | plural of motorsport CanadaUSCanada, US standard spelling of motorsport (“the class of all motorsports”) |
| Example | none recorded | none recorded |
| Forms | motorsports | none |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | not recorded |
| Region | no label | Canada, US |
| In writing | 1.5 times per million words | about once in every 1 million words |
Sources: motorsport and motorsports 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 motorsport and motorsports
motorsport
- 1
auto racing
- 2
Any sport involving automobiles (motor cars) other than racing; e.g. time trials
- 3
Any sport involving motor vehicles
motorsports
- 1
CanadaUSCanada, US standard spelling of motorsport (“the class of all motorsports”)
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, motorsport or motorsports?
motorsport appears 1.5 times per million words; motorsports about once in every 1 million words.
motorsport 1.5 times per million wordsmotorsports about once in every 1 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 motorsport vs motorsports?
“motorsport vs motorsports” is searched about 10 times a month on Google (Bing reports no separate figure) in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“motorsports vs motorsport”, “motorsport or motorsports”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.