slot machine
"slot-machine" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“slot machine” 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 May 6, 2026) - Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | slot machine |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “slot machine” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
slot machine is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for slot machine, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is slot machine, spelled S-L-O-T- -M-A-C-H-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
- 2Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
- 3Any machine operated by placing a coin or token into a slot, especially:
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.
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Using “slot machine”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-L-O-T- -M-A-C-H-I-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.