coat check
"coat-check" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coat check” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coat-check · coat check · English
coat check · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | coat check |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coat check” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coat check is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.".
Zero misspellings are on record for coat check in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is coat check, spelled C-O-A-T- -C-H-E-C-K.
Definition
- 1A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how coat check appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
There was no coat check / So we wore our dreams out on the dance floor
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.