Work-place or workplace?
work-place is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of workplace”; workplace is a noun meaning “The place where someone works”. Wiktionary gives them as spellings of the same word. work-place is written with a hyphen and workplace as one word; they are used differently.
What is the difference between work-place and workplace?
| work-place | workplace | |
|---|---|---|
| Part of speech | noun | noun |
| Meaning | Alternative spelling of workplace | The place where someone works |
| Example | none recorded | Meronyms: workspace, workstation |
| Forms | work-places | workplaces |
| Pronunciation | not recorded | /ˈwɝkˌpleɪs/ |
| In writing | not counted (the list counts single words) | 11 times per million words |
Sources: work-place and workplace 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 work-place and workplace
work-place
- 1
Alternative spelling of workplace
workplace
- 1
The place where someone works
Meronyms: workspace, workstation
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, work-place or workplace?
work-place is a phrase, which the list of single words does not count; workplace 11 times per 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 work-place vs workplace?
“work-place vs workplace” is searched about 10 times a month on Google and 10 on Bing in the United States. Google counts close variants of a query together (“workplace vs work-place”, “work-place or workplace”).
Sources: Google Ads keyword data through DataForSEO and Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, the average month from September 2025 to August 2026.