trolleybus
/tɹɒlɪbʌs/
"trolleybus" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“trolleybus” is uncommon English (frequency #88,949 among 3,151 “T” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,949
- frequency rank, English
- 3,151
- “T” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative form of trolley bus.
Corpus desk
Index EN-trolleybus · trolleybus · English
trolleybus · rank #88,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,949
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,151
- PHOTO-FINISH trilingual
Nearest frequency peer: trilingual (-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 “trolleybus”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Trentino
Trentino
11,054 corpus weight
- trilingual
trilingual
11,053 corpus weight
- trolleybus
trolleybus
11,052 corpus weight
- trombonist
trombonist
11,051 corpus weight
- tromp
tromp
11,050 corpus weight
- trouncing
trouncing
11,049 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “trolleybus” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | trolleybus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /tɹɒlɪbʌs/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “trolleybus” in English
Rare enough to double-check
trolleybus is uncommon English at frequency #88,949 among 3,151 “T” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /tɹɒlɪbʌs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alternative form of trolley bus.".
Zero misspellings are on record for trolleybus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From trolley + bus. The correct English form is trolleybus, spelled T-R-O-L-L-E-Y-B-U-S.
Definition
- 1Alternative form of trolley bus.
Etymology
From trolley + bus.
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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