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shopaholic

noun

shopaholic is spelled S-H-O-P-A-H-O-L-I-C: 10 letters. It appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, shopaholic means “One who shops excessively; a shopping addict” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of shopaholic is shopaholics.

How many letters and syllables are in shopaholic?

Letters10: S-H-O-P-A-H-O-L-I-C
In writingabout once in every 8 million words; the 85,266th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is shopaholic?

Shopaholic appears about once in every 8 million words in written English, the 85,266th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of shopaholic

  • shopaholics plural
  • shopoholic

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does shopaholic mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    One who shops excessively; a shopping addict.

    Shopaholics lose a lot of their money and possibly go broke because they've spent all of it.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Shopaholic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense one who shops very frequently:

LanguageWords
GermanKaufsüchtiger, Kaufsüchtige

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does shopaholic come from?

From shop + -aholic.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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