coffee shop
"coffee-shop" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coffee shop” 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 May 6, 2026) - A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coffee shop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “coffee shop” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
coffee shop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for coffee shop, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coffee + shop. The correct English form is coffee shop, spelled C-O-F-F-E-E- -S-H-O-P.
Definition
- 1A small café or restaurant typically selling light refreshments along with coffee-based drinks.
- 2A café-like establishment selling marijuana in the Netherlands.
- 3Synonym of kopitiam (“traditional eatery”).
- 4Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coffee, shop.
Etymology
From coffee + shop.
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 “coffee shop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-F-F-E-E- -S-H-O-P - 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.