sing along
"sing-along" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sing along” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To sing some music while someone else is singing or playing the same piece of music or while it is being broadcast or performed
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Index EN-sing-along · sing along · English
sing along · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 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 | sing along |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sing along” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sing along is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To sing some music while someone else is singing or playing the same piece of music or while it is being broadcast or performed".
sing along has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is sing along, spelled S-I-N-G- -A-L-O-N-G.
Definition
- 1To sing some music while someone else is singing or playing the same piece of music or while it is being broadcast or performed
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how sing along appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
If you know the song, sing along with me!
This word in other languages
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.