single parent
"single-parent" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“single parent” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To act as the only guardian of offspring.
Corpus desk
Index EN-single-parent · single parent · English
single parent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | single parent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “single parent” in English
Rare enough to double-check
single parent is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To act as the only guardian of offspring.".
Zero misspellings are on record for single parent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is single parent, spelled S-I-N-G-L-E- -P-A-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1To act as the only guardian of offspring.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how single parent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
My husband would, no doubt, be the slightest bit fatigued from having single-parented a precocious preschooler 24/7 for a week.
My degrees and credentials are largely oriented to working with children and young adults in many different capacities. And I've single parented.
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.