gas line
"gas-line" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“gas line” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pipe or hose connecting a gas appliance to the main supply of natural gas for the apartment, office or building.
Corpus desk
Index EN-gas-line · gas line · English
gas line · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "G" 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | gas line |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “gas line” in English
Rare enough to double-check
gas line is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for gas line, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 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 gas line, spelled G-A-S- -L-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1A pipe or hose connecting a gas appliance to the main supply of natural gas for the apartment, office or building.
- 2A queue out of a service station where people in automobiles wait their turn to make a purchase of gasoline.
- 3A pipeline used to transport natural gas.
- 4The tubing that carries gasoline in a vehicle from the gas tank to the engine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how gas line appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The gas line in each apartment should have a ball valve for emergency shutoffs.
The gas lines sometimes wrapped around the block in 1973.
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.