public life
"public-life" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“public life” 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 September 3, 2026) - The aspects of social life which occur in public, in the open, as opposed to more private social interaction within families, private clubs, etc.
Corpus desk
Index EN-public-life · public life · English
public life · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | public life |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “public life” in English
Rare enough to double-check
public life is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for public life in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is public life, spelled P-U-B-L-I-C- -L-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1The aspects of social life which occur in public, in the open, as opposed to more private social interaction within families, private clubs, etc.
- 2Politics, as in the profession of being a politician or political activism in general.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how public life appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Holonyms: life; daily life, real life
Meronym: work life
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.