child safety seat
"child-safety-seat" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“child safety seat” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | child safety seat |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “child safety seat” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
child safety seat is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.".
child safety seat doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is child safety seat, spelled C-H-I-L-D- -S-A-F-E-T-Y- -S-E-A-T.
Definition
- 1A detachable seat intended to provide additional safety to infants and young children when riding in automobiles, now frequently mandated by law.
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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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The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-H-I-L-D- -S-A-F-E-T-Y- -S-E-A-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.