thrift shop
"thrift-shop" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“thrift shop” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A shop which sells mainly used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | thrift shop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “thrift shop” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
thrift shop is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A shop which sells mainly used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.".
thrift shop doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is thrift shop, spelled T-H-R-I-F-T- -S-H-O-P.
Definition
- 1A shop which sells mainly used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.
Synonyms
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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 “thrift shop”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is T-H-R-I-F-T- -S-H-O-P - 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.