shop window
"shop-window" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shop window” 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 large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shop window |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shop window” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shop window is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shop window in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English shop window, shop wyndowe, equivalent to shop + window. The correct English form is shop window, spelled S-H-O-P- -W-I-N-D-O-W.
Definition
- 1A large window at the front of a shop, behind which items for sale are displayed.
Etymology
From Middle English shop window, shop wyndowe, equivalent to shop + window.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “shop window”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-H-O-P- -W-I-N-D-O-W - 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.