sports car
"sports-car" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sports car” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An automobile designed for high speed and power, tight handling, and flashy looks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sports car |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sports car” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sports car is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An automobile designed for high speed and power, tight handling, and flashy looks.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for sports car, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From sports + car. The correct English form is sports car, spelled S-P-O-R-T-S- -C-A-R.
Definition
- 1An automobile designed for high speed and power, tight handling, and flashy looks.
Etymology
From sports + car.
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 “sports car”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-P-O-R-T-S- -C-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.