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 September 3, 2026) - An at-grade crossing between a railway line and an ordinary road, with rails and road at the same level.
Corpus desk
Index EN-level-crossing · level crossing · English
level crossing · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "L" 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 | level crossing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “level crossing” in English
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how level crossing appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The aim is to secure up to £140 million for the combined road and rail improvements, including a new road bridge to replace a level crossing at Totton.
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.