full-time job

noun

"full-time-job" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“full-time job” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
13
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An activity that consumes a great deal of time.

Corpus desk

Index EN-full-time-job · full-time job · English

full-time job · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern

Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.

Key facts for full-time job
PropertyValue
Headwordfull-time job
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters13
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “full-time job” in English

full-time jobranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

full-time job is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An activity that consumes a great deal of time.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for full-time job in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is full-time job, spelled F-U-L-L---T-I-M-E- -J-O-B.

Definition

  1. 1
    An activity that consumes a great deal of time.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how full-time job appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Keeping up with the current state of the PC component market is a full-time job.
  2. Keeping up with the city's offerings is a full-time job, claims Novo, and one can escape from its excessive stimuli only if one is sick or in the countryside.

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 "full-time job"?
"full-time job" is spelled F-U-L-L---T-I-M-E- -J-O-B.
What does "full-time job" mean?
As a noun, "full-time job" means: An activity that consumes a great deal of time.
What language does "full-time job" come from?
"full-time job" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list