sitting-room

noun

"sitting-room" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“sitting-room” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of sitting room.

Corpus desk

Index EN-sitting-room · sitting-room · English

sitting-room · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 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.

Key facts for sitting-room
PropertyValue
Headwordsitting-room
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “sitting-room” in English

sitting-roomranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

sitting-room is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of sitting room.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sitting-room, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. 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.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 sitting-room, spelled S-I-T-T-I-N-G---R-O-O-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alternative form of sitting room.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. They crossed the strip of garden, the only thing the Curate had to be proud of,—and he was proud of it,—and the door (a glass door) of a very small sitting-room stood open to receive them.
  2. After a not-too-intrusive hunt he discovered Paige’s address book in a drawer in the sitting-room.

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 "sitting-room"?
"sitting-room" is spelled S-I-T-T-I-N-G---R-O-O-M.
What does "sitting-room" mean?
As a noun, "sitting-room" means: Alternative form of sitting room.
What language does "sitting-room" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list