market price

noun

"market-price" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“market price” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The price at which a product, financial instrument, service or other tradable item can be bought and sold at an open market; the going price.

Key facts for market price
PropertyValue
Headwordmarket price
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “market price” sits in English frequency

market price falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

market price is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for market price in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is market price, spelled M-A-R-K-E-T- -P-R-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    The price at which a product, financial instrument, service or other tradable item can be bought and sold at an open market; the going price.
  2. 2
    On restaurant menus, used to mean the price charged depends on the price of supplies, which may vary.

Synonyms

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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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "market price"?
"market price" is spelled M-A-R-K-E-T- -P-R-I-C-E.
What does "market price" mean?
As a noun, "market price" means: The price at which a product, financial instrument, service or other tradable item can be bought and sold at an open market; the going price.
What language does "market price" come from?
"market price" is a English word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Using “market price”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is M-A-R-K-E-T- -P-R-I-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list