racecar

noun

racecar is a noun meaning “Alternative spelling of race car” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-A-C-E-C-A-R, and it appears about once in every 3 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of racecar is racecars.

What does racecar mean?

noun

1
Alternative spelling of race car.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of racecar

racecars plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is racecar?

Racecar appears about once in every 3 million words in written English, the 48,230th most frequent word form in the list.

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rarerper million words of written Englishmore common

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Words people confuse with racecar

Also written: race car (one word or two).

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).