record shop

noun

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"record-shop" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“record shop” 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) - A shop selling music (CDs, vinyl, cassettes etc.)

Corpus desk

Index EN-record-shop · record shop · English

record shop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "R" 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.

Key facts for record shop
PropertyValue
Headwordrecord shop
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “record shop” sits in English frequency

record shop falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

record shop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A shop selling music (CDs, vinyl, cassettes etc.)".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for record shop, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is record shop, spelled R-E-C-O-R-D- -S-H-O-P.

Definition

  1. 1
    A shop selling music (CDs, vinyl, cassettes etc.)

This word in other languages

Plattenladen(Deutsch)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "record shop"?
"record shop" is spelled R-E-C-O-R-D- -S-H-O-P.
What does "record shop" mean?
As a noun, "record shop" means: A shop selling music (CDs, vinyl, cassettes etc.)
What language does "record shop" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list