price tag
"price-tag" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“price tag” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The tag or sticker attached to a product, displaying its price.
Corpus desk
Index EN-price-tag · price tag · English
price tag · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | price tag |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “price tag” in English
Rare enough to double-check
price tag is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for price tag in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is price tag, spelled P-R-I-C-E- -T-A-G.
Definition
- 1The tag or sticker attached to a product, displaying its price.
- 2The price at which something is offered for sale.
- 3The amount that something costs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how price tag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The new sports car comes with a hefty price tag.
Unsurprisingly, there's a hefty price tag attached to a programme that could bring a network on which 80% of train miles operate under electric traction, and which features a 25% increase in the number of people living with[in] 5km (3.1 miles) of a railway station.
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.