space bar
"space-bar" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“space bar” 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 May 6, 2026) - A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | space bar |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “space bar” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
space bar is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed.".
No misspelling variants are generated for space bar in our 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.
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 space bar, spelled S-P-A-C-E- -B-A-R.
Definition
- 1A key, in the shape of a bar, near the bottom of a keyboard, that generates a space character when pressed.
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 “space bar”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-P-A-C-E- -B-A-R - 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.