shopping trolley
"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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shopping trolley |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “shopping trolley” in English
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
- 1A shopping cart.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how shopping trolley appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.