meatspace
"meatspace" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“meatspace” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
Corpus desk
Index EN-meatspace · meatspace · English
meatspace · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "M" 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 | meatspace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “meatspace” in English
Rare enough to double-check
meatspace is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.".
meatspace doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag. The correct English form is meatspace, spelled M-E-A-T-S-P-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1The physical world, as opposed to the virtual world of the Internet.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how meatspace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In this short manifesto, Barlow erects an 'electronic frontier' between the legislature, marketsand social mores of what he terms elsewhere 'Meatspace' and the radical otherness of cyberspace.
The HBO sci-fi blockbuster Westworld has been an inspiring look into what humanlike robots can do for us in the meatspace.
Etymology
From meat + space, by analogy with cyberspace. Compare in the flesh and meatbag.
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.