school bus
/ˈskuːl.bʌs/
"school-bus" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“school bus” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A bus which carries children to or from school.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | school bus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈskuːl.bʌs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “school bus” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
school bus is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈskuːl.bʌs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A bus which carries children to or from school.".
school bus has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. 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.
Etymologically, the entry records: Compound of school + bus. The correct English form is school bus, spelled S-C-H-O-O-L- -B-U-S.
Definition
- 1A bus which carries children to or from school.
Etymology
Compound of school + bus.
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 “school bus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-C-H-O-O-L- -B-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˈskuːl.bʌs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.