laundry basket
"laundry-basket" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“laundry basket” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | laundry basket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “laundry basket” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
laundry basket is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for laundry basket, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: laundry + basket The correct English form is laundry basket, spelled L-A-U-N-D-R-Y- -B-A-S-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1A container, often made of plastic, for holding and transporting clothing and household textiles, especially before and after being laundered.
Etymology
laundry + basket
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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Using “laundry basket”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-A-U-N-D-R-Y- -B-A-S-K-E-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
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.