swing door
"swing-door" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“swing door” 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 September 3, 2026) - A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
Corpus desk
Index EN-swing-door · swing door · English
swing door · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | swing door |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “swing door” in English
Rare enough to double-check
swing door is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.".
No misspelling variants are generated for swing door in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is swing door, spelled S-W-I-N-G- -D-O-O-R.
Definition
- 1A door that is opened by either pushing or pulling from either side (i.e. opens both ways) and is not normally capable of being locked.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how swing door appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The restaurant's kitchen was separated from the dining room by a swing door.
The swing-doors which opened on to his dining-room creaked[.]
Synonyms
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.