rear-view mirror
"rear-view-mirror" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rear-view mirror” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rear-view mirror |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rear-view mirror” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rear-view mirror is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rear-view mirror, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: From rear-view + mirror. The correct English form is rear-view mirror, spelled R-E-A-R---V-I-E-W- -M-I-R-R-O-R.
Definition
- 1A mirror inside a vehicle that allows the driver to see the traffic behind.
- 2The observer's perception of something that is past or has been surpassed.
Etymology
From rear-view + mirror.
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.
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Using “rear-view mirror”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is R-E-A-R---V-I-E-W- -M-I-R-R-O-R - 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.