emergency exit
"emergency-exit" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“emergency exit” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An exit that is designed to allow rapid evacuation in the case of emergencies such as a fire.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | emergency exit |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “emergency exit” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
emergency exit is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An exit that is designed to allow rapid evacuation in the case of emergencies such as a fire.".
No misspelling variants are generated for emergency exit in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is emergency exit, spelled E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y- -E-X-I-T.
Definition
- 1An exit that is designed to allow rapid evacuation in the case of emergencies such as a fire.
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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Using “emergency exit”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is E-M-E-R-G-E-N-C-Y- -E-X-I-T - 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.