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greenspace

noun

greenspace is spelled G-R-E-E-N-S-P-A-C-E: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, greenspace means “An area of undeveloped landscape, such as parkland left within a city during planning and zoning other areas for development” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of greenspace is greenspaces.

How many letters and syllables are in greenspace?

Letters10: G-R-E-E-N-S-P-A-C-E
In writingabout once in every 13 million words; the 107,757th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is greenspace?

Greenspace appears about once in every 13 million words in written English, the 107,757th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce greenspace?

  • US

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-greenspace.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of greenspace

  • greenspaces plural
  • green space

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does greenspace mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    An area of undeveloped landscape, such as parkland left within a city during planning and zoning other areas for development.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Greenspace in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense area of undeveloped landscape within a city:

LanguageWords
Frenchespace vert

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does greenspace come from?

From green + space.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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