convenience store

noun

"convenience-store" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“convenience store” 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) - A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of sho...

Corpus desk

Index EN-convenience-store · convenience store · English

convenience store · 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

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Key facts for convenience store
PropertyValue
Headwordconvenience store
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters17
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “convenience store” in English

convenience storesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

convenience store is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of sho...".

No misspelling variants are generated for convenience store in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: From convenience + store. The correct English form is convenience store, spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-C-E- -S-T-O-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of shoppers.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how convenience store appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Ah, that's nice. They have many convenience stores there for you to stand in front of.

Etymology

From convenience + store.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "convenience store"?
"convenience store" is spelled C-O-N-V-E-N-I-E-N-C-E- -S-T-O-R-E.
What does "convenience store" mean?
As a noun, "convenience store" means: A small retail store, often in a residential area, that carries a limited selection of items such as staples, junk food, and drugstore items, and which is open long hours for the convenience of sho...
What is the origin of the word "convenience store"?
From convenience + store. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list