shopping trolley

noun

"shopping-trolley" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“shopping trolley” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
16
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A shopping cart.

Corpus desk

Index EN-shopping-trolley · shopping trolley · English

shopping trolley · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 16 letters
  • VOW-5 5 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.

Key facts for shopping trolley
PropertyValue
Headwordshopping trolley
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters16
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “shopping trolley” in English

shopping trolleysits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

shopping trolley is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A shopping cart.".

shopping trolley has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is shopping trolley, spelled S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G- -T-R-O-L-L-E-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    A shopping cart.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how shopping trolley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 2007, Scott Moeller, Chris Brady, Intelligent M&A: Navigating the Mergers and Acquisitions Minefield, John Wiley, UK, 2011, unnumbered page, As Wal-Mart builds up its knowledge of what goes into your shopping trolley, it can aid the positioning of goods as well as the pricing of complementary goods.
  2. Children are often placed in shopping trolleys; in the designated seats as well as in the trolley itself. A fall from a shopping trolley is a regular occurrence, possibly due to diminished attention of the parents while shopping.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "shopping trolley"?
"shopping trolley" is spelled S-H-O-P-P-I-N-G- -T-R-O-L-L-E-Y.
What does "shopping trolley" mean?
As a noun, "shopping trolley" means: A shopping cart.
What language does "shopping trolley" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list