cable car
/ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɑːɹ/
"cable-car" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“cable car” 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 September 3, 2026) - A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
Corpus desk
Index EN-cable-car · cable car · English
cable car · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" 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 | cable car |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɑːɹ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “cable car” in English
Rare enough to double-check
cable car is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɑːɹ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for cable car, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is cable car, spelled C-A-B-L-E- -C-A-R.
Definition
- 1A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
- 2Any passenger vehicle attached to a moving cable for propulsion, and guided by some form of rails, on a specially-built track not in a street.
- 3A hanging carriage or car for transporting people or cargo.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how cable car appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The Luton Direct Air-Rail Transit (DART) opened to passengers on March 10. The 1.3-mile cable car system is initially available for public use between 1400-1900 before opening in full at the end of the month.
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.