sing along

verb

"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

Corpus desk

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

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Key facts for sing along
PropertyValue
Headwordsing along
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters10
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sing along” in English

sing alongsits 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

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

  1. 1
    To 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 example

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

  1. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "sing along"?
"sing along" is spelled S-I-N-G- -A-L-O-N-G.
What does "sing along" mean?
As a verb, "sing along" means: To sing some music while someone else is singing or playing the same piece of music or while it is being broadcast or performed
What language does "sing along" come from?
"sing along" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list