consolation prize
"consolation-prize" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consolation prize” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An award or small item given to persons or groups of people who do not win an event but are worthy of recognition, especially in a game show.
Corpus desk
Index EN-consolation-prize · consolation prize · English
consolation prize · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 | consolation prize |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “consolation prize” in English
Rare enough to double-check
consolation prize is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An award or small item given to persons or groups of people who do not win an event but are worthy of recognition, especially in a game show.".
Zero misspellings are on record for consolation prize in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is consolation prize, spelled C-O-N-S-O-L-A-T-I-O-N- -P-R-I-Z-E.
Definition
- 1An award or small item given to persons or groups of people who do not win an event but are worthy of recognition, especially in a game show.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how consolation prize appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The row started over who will run for parliament in a wealthy rightwing constituency on the left bank in Paris, a safe seat for Sarkozy's ruling UMP. Dati is already a local mayor in the neighbourhood, a job felt to have been handed to her on a plate when she was a Sarkozy favourite. She has since fallen from grace, and when she left government she took a…
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.