stop sign
"stop-sign" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stop sign” 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 sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stop sign |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stop sign” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
stop sign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.".
Zero misspellings are on record for stop sign in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is stop sign, spelled S-T-O-P- -S-I-G-N.
Definition
- 1A sign by the side of a road or street, often at an intersection, instructing vehicle drivers to stop.
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 “stop sign”
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- The one correct English spelling is S-T-O-P- -S-I-G-N - 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.