bus stop
"bus-stop" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bus stop” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bus-stop · bus stop · English
bus stop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bus stop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bus stop” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bus stop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
bus stop has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is bus stop, spelled B-U-S- -S-T-O-P.
Definition
- 1A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
- 2The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
- 3"⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
- 4A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
- 5Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bus stop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was waiting at the bus stop with her.
"The streets are packed now," said a man named Pinky, as we sat talking on a busstop bench.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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.