tollway
"tollway" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“tollway” is uncommon English (frequency #80,967 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,967
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A toll road or toll highway, where a fee is charged in order to travel on it; a turnpike.
Corpus desk
Index EN-tollway · tollway · English
tollway · rank #80,967 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,967
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH Todt
Nearest frequency peer: Todt (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “tollway”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Tippecanoe
Tippecanoe
19,039 corpus weight
- titted
titted
19,038 corpus weight
- toady
toady
19,036 corpus weight
- Todt
Todt
19,035 corpus weight
- tollway
tollway
19,034 corpus weight
- toolset
toolset
19,032 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “tollway” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | tollway |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #80,967 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “tollway” in English
Rare enough to double-check
tollway is uncommon English at frequency #80,967 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A toll road or toll highway, where a fee is charged in order to travel on it; a turnpike.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for tollway, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From toll + way. The correct English form is tollway, spelled T-O-L-L-W-A-Y.
Definition
- 1A toll road or toll highway, where a fee is charged in order to travel on it; a turnpike.
Etymology
From toll + way.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).