# backstreet

> English word · Adjective · frequency rank #38,740

## Definitions
1. Associated with neighborhoods on back streets, often in older neighborhoods, with poorer residents.
2. Done in poor and unsanitary conditions, secretly and illegally; back-alley.

## Etymology
From back + street.

## Common misspellings (16)
`abckstreet`, `bacckstreet`, `backkstreet`, `backsrteet`, `backsstreet`, `backsteret`, `backstreett`, `backstret`, `backstrete`, `backstrreet`, `backsttreet`, `backtsreet`, `bacsktreet`, `bakcstreet`, `bbackstreet`, `bcakstreet`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/backstreet