app store
"app-store" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“app store” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A digital marketplace where computer software can be purchased and downloaded.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | app store |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “app store” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
app store is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A digital marketplace where computer software can be purchased and downloaded.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for app store, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is app store, spelled A-P-P- -S-T-O-R-E.
Definition
- 1A digital marketplace where computer software can be purchased and downloaded.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “app store”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-P-P- -S-T-O-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.