living wage
"living-wage" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“living wage” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | living wage |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “living wage” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
living wage is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.".
No misspelling variants are generated for living wage in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is living wage, spelled L-I-V-I-N-G- -W-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1The minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their basic needs.
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 “living wage”
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- The one correct English spelling is L-I-V-I-N-G- -W-A-G-E - 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.