common room
"common-room" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“common room” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A shared lounge found in dormitories, universities, military bases, etc.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | common room |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “common room” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for common room is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A shared lounge found in dormitories, universities, military bases, etc.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for common room, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is common room, spelled C-O-M-M-O-N- -R-O-O-M.
Definition
- 1A shared lounge found in dormitories, universities, military bases, etc.
Synonyms
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 “common room”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-O-M-M-O-N- -R-O-O-M - 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.