level crossing
"level-crossing" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“level crossing” 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) - An at-grade crossing between a railway line and an ordinary road, with rails and road at the same level.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | level crossing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “level crossing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
level crossing is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An at-grade crossing between a railway line and an ordinary road, with rails and road at the same level.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for level crossing, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 level crossing, spelled L-E-V-E-L- -C-R-O-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1An at-grade crossing between a railway line and an ordinary road, with rails and road at the same level.
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 “level crossing”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-E-V-E-L- -C-R-O-S-S-I-N-G - 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.