coast guard
"coast-guard" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coast guard” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The organisation or officer enforcing maritime law and policing the seas within territorial waters.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coast-guard · coast guard · English
coast guard · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | coast guard |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coast guard” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coast guard is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The organisation or officer enforcing maritime law and policing the seas within territorial waters.".
No misspelling variants are generated for coast guard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coast + guard. Compare Old English sǣweard (“coastguard”, literally “sea-guard”). The correct English form is coast guard, spelled C-O-A-S-T- -G-U-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1The organisation or officer enforcing maritime law and policing the seas within territorial waters.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coast guard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I went down to the coast guard to see what they're guarding / "See what the sign says, you idiot, we're guarding the coast"
Etymology
From coast + guard. Compare Old English sǣweard (“coastguard”, literally “sea-guard”).
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.