stop-start
"stop-start" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“stop-start” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as an adjective - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | stop-start |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “stop-start” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for stop-start is 10 letters long, classified as an adjective. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for stop-start, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is stop-start, spelled S-T-O-P---S-T-A-R-T.
Definition
- 1Intermittent; starting and stopping with regularity.
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-start”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-T-O-P---S-T-A-R-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.