place of worship

noun

"place-of-worship" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.

Corpus desk

Index EN-place-of-worship · place of worship · English

place of worship · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "P" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for place of worship
PropertyValue
Headwordplace of worship
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “place of worship” sits in English frequency

place of worship falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

place of worship is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for place of worship in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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 Middle English place of worship, place of wurschip. The correct English form is place of worship, spelled P-L-A-C-E- -O-F- -W-O-R-S-H-I-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.

Etymology

From Middle English place of worship, place of wurschip.

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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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "place of worship"?
"place of worship" is spelled P-L-A-C-E- -O-F- -W-O-R-S-H-I-P.
What does "place of worship" mean?
As a noun, "place of worship" means: A place, usually a building such as a church, mosque, synagogue or temple where believers can practise their faith.
What is the origin of the word "place of worship"?
From Middle English place of worship, place of wurschip. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list