driving licence
"driving-licence" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“driving licence” 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A driver's licence; an official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorised vehicle.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | driving licence |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “driving licence” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for driving licence is 15 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 driver's licence; an official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorised vehicle.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for driving licence in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is driving licence, spelled D-R-I-V-I-N-G- -L-I-C-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1A driver's licence; an official identification document which states the recipient may drive a motorised vehicle.
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 “driving licence”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-I-V-I-N-G- -L-I-C-E-N-C-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.