shopaholic
"shopaholic" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shopaholic” is uncommon English (frequency #85,771 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,771
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shopaholic · shopaholic · English
shopaholic · rank #85,771 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,771
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 54,294
- PHOTO-FINISH shoplift
Nearest frequency peer: shoplift (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “shopaholic”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Shelagh
Shelagh
14,235 corpus weight
- sherm
sherm
14,234 corpus weight
- shopaholic
shopaholic
14,230 corpus weight
- shoplift
shoplift
14,229 corpus weight
- Shreya
Shreya
14,228 corpus weight
- sideman
sideman
14,226 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “shopaholic” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shopaholic |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #85,771 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shopaholic” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shopaholic is uncommon English at frequency #85,771 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.".
Zero misspellings are on record for shopaholic in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From shop + -aholic. The correct English form is shopaholic, spelled S-H-O-P-A-H-O-L-I-C.
Definition
- 1One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.
Etymology
From shop + -aholic.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.