quality of life
"quality-of-life" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“quality of 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | quality of life |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “quality of life” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
quality of life is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for quality of life in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is quality of life, spelled Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y- -O-F- -L-I-F-E.
Definition
- 1The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
- 2The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
- 3Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.
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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 “quality of life”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is Q-U-A-L-I-T-Y- -O-F- -L-I-F-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.