shut the front door
"shut-the-front-door" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“shut the front door” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a phrase. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - shut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | shut the front door |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “shut the front door” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
shut the front door is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aphrase. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "shut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for shut the front door, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is shut the front door, spelled S-H-U-T- -T-H-E- -F-R-O-N-T- -D-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1shut the fuck up (usually expressing disbelief)
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 “shut the front door”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-H-U-T- -T-H-E- -F-R-O-N-T- -D-O-O-R - 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.