parking ticket
/ˈpɑː.kɪŋ ˈtɪk.ɪt/
"parking-ticket" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“parking ticket” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 14
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A legal summons issued for parking a motor vehicle in a place where such parking is restricted, or beyond the time paid for.
Corpus desk
Index EN-parking-ticket · parking ticket · English
parking ticket · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 14 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 ticket |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈpɑː.kɪŋ ˈtɪk.ɪt/ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “parking ticket” in English
Rare enough to double-check
parking ticket is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈpɑː.kɪŋ ˈtɪk.ɪt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for parking ticket in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 ticket, spelled P-A-R-K-I-N-G- -T-I-C-K-E-T.
Definition
- 1A legal summons issued for parking a motor vehicle in a place where such parking is restricted, or beyond the time paid for.
- 2A small ticket issued as proof of payment for the right to park a motor vehicle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how parking ticket appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It must be recognised that the decriminalised parking ticket system is heavily weighted against the motorist. Just one example should suffice. When a parking ticket is issued, a motorist who believes the ticket was issued incorrectly appeals to the very local authority which issued the parking ticket. Moreover, the local authority and the contractor to wh…
During Fiscal year 2005, New York City issued nearly 10 million parking tickets, for an estimated value of $800 million (nearly a billion dollars). This incredible amount makes New York City the parking ticket capital of the nation, if not the world.
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.