common ground
"common-ground" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“common ground” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.
Corpus desk
Index EN-common-ground · common ground · English
common ground · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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 | common ground |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “common ground” in English
Rare enough to double-check
common ground is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for common ground, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. 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 explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is common ground, spelled C-O-M-M-O-N- -G-R-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1A characteristic or interest shared by multiple people or systems; any belief, etc. held in common.
- 2Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, ground; especially, common land.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how common ground appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The first thing to do is to find common ground with the person you just met.
You'll say, we've got nothing in common No common ground to start from And we're falling apart
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.