ice-cream parlour
"ice-cream-parlour" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“ice-cream parlour” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 17
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of ice cream parlor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-ice-cream-parlour · ice-cream parlour · English
ice-cream parlour · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 17 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "I" 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 | ice-cream parlour |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 17 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “ice-cream parlour” in English
Rare enough to double-check
ice-cream parlour is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of ice cream parlor.".
ice-cream parlour doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is ice-cream parlour, spelled I-C-E---C-R-E-A-M- -P-A-R-L-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of ice cream parlor.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ice-cream parlour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ice-cream parlours are making a comeback at present, almost all of them finding it profitable to provide “retro”-styled furnishings: black-and-white tiled floors (the tiles preferably hexagonal), bentwood chairs, “Tiffany” lamps, mirrors, cushioned booths, marble counters and so on.
In fact, one of the appeals of ice-cream parlours was their perceived ‘respectability’, which, unlike pubs, made them appropriate for women and children to frequent.
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.