coat check

noun

"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

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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.

Key facts for coat check
PropertyValue
Headwordcoat check
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “coat check” in English

coat checkranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how coat check appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "coat check"?
"coat check" is spelled C-O-A-T- -C-H-E-C-K.
What does "coat check" mean?
As a noun, "coat check" means: A service provided at certain businesses which allows one to check one's coat for safekeeping while inside.
What language does "coat check" come from?
"coat check" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list