shoelace
/ˈʃuːˌleɪs/
"shoelace" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoelace” is uncommon English (frequency #63,248 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,248
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A lace used for fastening a shoe.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shoelace · shoelace · English
shoelace · rank #63,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,248
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sherrill
Nearest frequency peer: Sherrill (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “shoelace”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- serially
serially
36,761 corpus weight
- shamus
shamus
36,756 corpus weight
- shemales
shemales
36,755 corpus weight
- Sherrill
Sherrill
36,754 corpus weight
- shoelace
shoelace
36,753 corpus weight
- slat
slat
36,748 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “shoelace” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoelace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃuːˌleɪs/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #63,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shoelace” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shoelace is uncommon English at frequency #63,248 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈʃuːˌleɪs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A lace used for fastening a shoe.".
shoelace has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: shoe + lace The correct English form is shoelace, spelled S-H-O-E-L-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1A lace used for fastening a shoe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shoelace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
untied shoelace
tie up one's shoelaces
Etymology
shoe + lace
Synonyms
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).