ghost town
/ˈɡəʊst taʊn/
"ghost-town" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ghost town” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ghost-town · ghost town · English
ghost town · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-2 2 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 | ghost town |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈɡəʊst taʊn/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “ghost town” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
ghost town is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈɡəʊst taʊn/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ghost town in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is ghost town, spelled G-H-O-S-T- -T-O-W-N.
Definition
- 1A town which has become deserted, usually due to failing economic activity, especially one that still has substantial visible remains.
- 2Anything that has been deserted or abandoned, or has been empty all along.
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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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.