smoking room

noun

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

The verdict

“smoking 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 May 6, 2026) - A room designated for people who wish to smoke.

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

Where “smoking room” sits in English frequency

smoking room falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

smoking room is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A room designated for people who wish to smoke.".

smoking room doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is smoking room, spelled S-M-O-K-I-N-G- -R-O-O-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    A room designated for people who wish to smoke.

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 "smoking room"?
"smoking room" is spelled S-M-O-K-I-N-G- -R-O-O-M.
What does "smoking room" mean?
As a noun, "smoking room" means: A room designated for people who wish to smoke.
What language does "smoking room" come from?
"smoking room" is a English word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “smoking room”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct English spelling is S-M-O-K-I-N-G- -R-O-O-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list