seaside resort

noun

"seaside-resort" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“seaside resort” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A coastal location specialising in catering for holidays (vacations).

Corpus desk

Index EN-seaside-resort · seaside resort · English

seaside resort · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "S" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for seaside resort
PropertyValue
Headwordseaside resort
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “seaside resort” in English

seaside resortranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

seaside resort is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A coastal location specialising in catering for holidays (vacations).".

Zero misspellings are on record for seaside resort in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct English form is seaside resort, spelled S-E-A-S-I-D-E- -R-E-S-O-R-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    A coastal location specialising in catering for holidays (vacations).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how seaside resort appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Serving the flat and fertile south-eastern part of Co. Cork is the railway that runs from Glanmire Road Station in Cork City to the popular seaside resort of Youghal (pronounced "Yawl") and the town of Cobh (pronounced "Cove"), which is Ireland's port of call for transatlantic liners.
  2. This is a far cry from the days when summer Saturdays on the North Wales coast were by far the busiest days of the year, with successive full length loco-hauled trains, but life has changed: families no longer travel by rail to spend a fortnight's holiday at British seaside resorts!

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "seaside resort"?
"seaside resort" is spelled S-E-A-S-I-D-E- -R-E-S-O-R-T.
What does "seaside resort" mean?
As a noun, "seaside resort" means: A coastal location specialising in catering for holidays (vacations).
What language does "seaside resort" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list