shoulder bone
"shoulder-bone" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shoulder bone” 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 May 6, 2026) - shoulder blade
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shoulder bone |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shoulder bone” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shoulder bone is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "shoulder blade".
No misspelling variants are generated for shoulder bone in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English schuldre bon; equivalent to shoulder + bone. The correct English form is shoulder bone, spelled S-H-O-U-L-D-E-R- -B-O-N-E.
Definition
- 1shoulder blade
Etymology
From Middle English schuldre bon; equivalent to shoulder + bone.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “shoulder bone”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-H-O-U-L-D-E-R- -B-O-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.