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 September 3, 2026) - A room designated for people who wish to smoke.

Corpus desk

Index EN-smoking-room · smoking room · English

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

Long-tail rank of “smoking room” in English

smoking roomfalls 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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Near-synonym: divan

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list