price tag

noun

"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.

Key facts for price tag
PropertyValue
Headwordprice tag
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “price tag” in English

price tagfalls 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

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

  1. 1
    The tag or sticker attached to a product, displaying its price.
  2. 2
    The price at which something is offered for sale.
  3. 3
    The amount that something costs.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how price tag appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. The new sports car comes with a hefty price tag.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "price tag"?
"price tag" is spelled P-R-I-C-E- -T-A-G.
What does "price tag" mean?
As a noun, "price tag" means: The tag or sticker attached to a product, displaying its price.
What language does "price tag" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list