prize money
"prize-money" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“prize money” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Money offered as a prize in a competitive event.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | prize money |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “prize money” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
prize money is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Money offered as a prize in a competitive event.".
Zero misspellings are on record for prize money in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is prize money, spelled P-R-I-Z-E- -M-O-N-E-Y.
Definition
- 1Money offered as a prize in a competitive event.
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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 “prize money”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-R-I-Z-E- -M-O-N-E-Y - 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.