tourist attraction

noun

"tourist-attraction" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“tourist attraction” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
18
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its cultural value, beauty, or historical significance, offering leisure and amusement.

Corpus desk

Index EN-tourist-attraction · tourist attraction · English

tourist attraction · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 18 letters
  • VOW-7 7 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.

Key facts for tourist attraction
PropertyValue
Headwordtourist attraction
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters18
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “tourist attraction” in English

tourist attractionsits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

tourist attraction is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its cultural value, beauty, or historical significance, offering leisure and amusement.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for tourist attraction, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is tourist attraction, spelled T-O-U-R-I-S-T- -A-T-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its cultural value, beauty, or historical significance, offering leisure and amusement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how tourist attraction appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Carol, who is responsible for two coaches, says the sleeping accommodation is virtually full - surprising for midweek in mid-April. The Train Manager confirms that the train is well-loaded overall, noting that people view the train as a tourist attraction in its own right.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "tourist attraction"?
"tourist attraction" is spelled T-O-U-R-I-S-T- -A-T-T-R-A-C-T-I-O-N.
What does "tourist attraction" mean?
As a noun, "tourist attraction" means: A place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its cultural value, beauty, or historical significance, offering leisure and amusement.
What language does "tourist attraction" come from?
"tourist attraction" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list