shopping cart
/ˈʃɑpɪŋ kɑɹt/
"shopping-cart" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shopping cart” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A conveyance used to carry groceries and other items while shopping in a store.
Corpus desk
Index EN-shopping-cart · shopping cart · English
shopping cart · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shopping cart |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈʃɑpɪŋ kɑɹt/ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shopping cart” in English
Rare enough to double-check
shopping cart is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈʃɑpɪŋ kɑɹt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for shopping cart, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 shopping cart, spelled S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G- -C-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1A conveyance used to carry groceries and other items while shopping in a store.
- 2The stored list of items that a person has chosen to purchase during an online shopping session but has not yet confirmed.
Synonyms
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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.