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 May 6, 2026) - A streetcar moved by gripping to rotating loop of cable running along the track.
| 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) |
Where “cable car” sits in English frequency
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.
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.
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Using “cable car”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-A-B-L-E- -C-A-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈkeɪ.bəl ˌkɑːɹ/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.