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 September 3, 2026) - A shop which sells mainly used goods (especially clothes) at low prices.
Corpus desk
Index EN-thrift-shop · thrift shop · English
thrift shop · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "T" 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 | thrift shop |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “thrift shop” in English
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how thrift shop appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Some thrift shops, glutted with flimsy, synthetic wares, have stopped accepting fast-fashion donations.
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.