parking space
"parking-space" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parking space” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A space in which a car or other vehicle can be parked. (Sometimes demarcated with lines painted on the ground.)
Corpus desk
Index EN-parking-space · parking space · English
parking space · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" 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 | parking space |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parking space” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parking space is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for parking space, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is parking space, spelled P-A-R-K-I-N-G- -S-P-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1A space in which a car or other vehicle can be parked. (Sometimes demarcated with lines painted on the ground.)
- 2Space in which a car or other vehicle can be parked.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parking space appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holonyms: parking lot, parking garage < parking, car park, carpark
They finally found a parking space after circling the block three times.
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.