pedestrian crossing
"pedestrian-crossing" is a 18-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“pedestrian crossing” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A place where pedestrians are permitted to or advised to cross a street.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pedestrian crossing |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pedestrian crossing” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
pedestrian crossing is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place where pedestrians are permitted to or advised to cross a street.".
pedestrian crossing has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is pedestrian crossing, spelled P-E-D-E-S-T-R-I-A-N- -C-R-O-S-S-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A place where pedestrians are permitted to or advised to cross a street.
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.
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Using “pedestrian crossing”
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- The one correct English spelling is P-E-D-E-S-T-R-I-A-N- -C-R-O-S-S-I-N-G - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.