bus stop

noun

"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.

Key facts for bus stop
PropertyValue
Headwordbus stop
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters8
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “bus stop” in English

bus stopranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
  2. 2
    The tableau used in short division, taught as if it were a bus stop with the digits treated as people queueing.
  3. 3
    "⟌": The two-lined right-angled symbol used to separate quotient, divisor and dividend in long division and short division
  4. 4
    A disco dance popular in the 1970s and 1980s.
  5. 5
    Ellipsis of bus stop chicane.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how bus stop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. He was waiting at the bus stop with her.
  2. "The streets are packed now," said a man named Pinky, as we sat talking on a busstop bench.

Synonyms

long division symbolshort division symbollong division boxshort division box

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "bus stop"?
"bus stop" is spelled B-U-S- -S-T-O-P.
What does "bus stop" mean?
As a noun, "bus stop" means: A place where public transport buses stop to allow passengers to board or leave.
What language does "bus stop" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list