consumer price index
"consumer-price-index" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“consumer price index” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 20
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | consumer price index |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 20 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “consumer price index” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
consumer price index is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for consumer price index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is consumer price index, spelled C-O-N-S-U-M-E-R- -P-R-I-C-E- -I-N-D-E-X.
Definition
- 1A statistical estimate of the level of prices of goods and services bought for consumption purposes by households.
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.
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- The one correct English spelling is C-O-N-S-U-M-E-R- -P-R-I-C-E- -I-N-D-E-X - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.