standing joke
"standing-joke" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“standing joke” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A customary laughing matter amongst a group of people.
Corpus desk
Index EN-standing-joke · standing joke · English
standing joke · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | standing joke |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “standing joke” in English
Rare enough to double-check
standing joke is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A customary laughing matter amongst a group of people.".
Zero misspellings are on record for standing joke in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 standing joke, spelled S-T-A-N-D-I-N-G- -J-O-K-E.
Definition
- 1A customary laughing matter amongst a group of people.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how standing joke appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The two aunts laughed heartily, too, for Gabriel's solicitude was a standing joke with them.
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.