moving pavement

noun

"moving-pavement" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
15
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A moving walkway.

Corpus desk

Index EN-moving-pavement · moving pavement · English

moving pavement · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 15 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "M" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for moving pavement
PropertyValue
Headwordmoving pavement
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters15
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “moving pavement” in English

moving pavementranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

moving pavement is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A moving walkway.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for moving pavement, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is moving pavement, spelled M-O-V-I-N-G- -P-A-V-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A moving walkway.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how moving pavement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Britain's first "moving pavement", the 104-yds.-long Travolater linking the Waterloo & City Tube station with the L.T. concourse at the Bank, London, was brought into use on September 27.

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 "moving pavement"?
"moving pavement" is spelled M-O-V-I-N-G- -P-A-V-E-M-E-N-T.
What does "moving pavement" mean?
As a noun, "moving pavement" means: A moving walkway.
What language does "moving pavement" come from?
"moving pavement" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list