crossword puzzle
"crossword-puzzle" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“crossword puzzle” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A crossword.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | crossword puzzle |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “crossword puzzle” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
crossword puzzle is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A crossword.".
Zero misspellings are on record for crossword puzzle in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is crossword puzzle, spelled C-R-O-S-S-W-O-R-D- -P-U-Z-Z-L-E.
Definition
- 1A crossword.
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 “crossword puzzle”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is C-R-O-S-S-W-O-R-D- -P-U-Z-Z-L-E - 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.