slip road

noun

"slip-road" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
9
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A segment of a roadway that joins a motorway to ordinary roads (in either direction).

Corpus desk

Index EN-slip-road · slip road · English

slip road · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-LONG 9 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 slip road
PropertyValue
Headwordslip road
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “slip road” in English

slip roadsits 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

slip road is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A segment of a roadway that joins a motorway to ordinary roads (in either direction).".

No generated misspelling entries exist for slip road in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

Etymologically, the entry records: From slip + road. The correct English form is slip road, spelled S-L-I-P- -R-O-A-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    A segment of a roadway that joins a motorway to ordinary roads (in either direction).

Etymology

From slip + road.

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 "slip road"?
"slip road" is spelled S-L-I-P- -R-O-A-D.
What does "slip road" mean?
As a noun, "slip road" means: A segment of a roadway that joins a motorway to ordinary roads (in either direction).
What is the origin of the word "slip road"?
From slip + road. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list