traffic sign

noun

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"traffic-sign" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sign for the control of traffic or the information of drivers.

Corpus desk

Index EN-traffic-sign · traffic sign · English

traffic sign · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-3 3 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 traffic sign
PropertyValue
Headwordtraffic sign
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “traffic sign” sits in English frequency

traffic sign falls outside the top-100,000 ranked English words, the long-tail zone of technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary, exactly where readers second-guess spellings most.

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

Rare enough to double-check

traffic sign is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A sign for the control of traffic or the information of drivers.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for traffic sign, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is traffic sign, spelled T-R-A-F-F-I-C- -S-I-G-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A sign for the control of traffic or the information of drivers.

This word in other languages

panneau(Français)Verkehrszeichen(Deutsch)placa(Português)

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "traffic sign"?
"traffic sign" is spelled T-R-A-F-F-I-C- -S-I-G-N.
What does "traffic sign" mean?
As a noun, "traffic sign" means: A sign for the control of traffic or the information of drivers.
What language does "traffic sign" come from?
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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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list