walk-in
"walk-in" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“walk-in” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A facility or room which may be walked into:
Corpus desk
Index EN-walk-in · walk-in · English
walk-in · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "W" 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 | walk-in |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “walk-in” in English
Rare enough to double-check
walk-in is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for walk-in, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Deverbal from walk in. The correct English form is walk-in, spelled W-A-L-K---I-N.
Definition
- 1A facility or room which may be walked into:
- 2A facility or room which may be walked into:
- 3A facility or room which may be walked into:
- 4A facility or room which may be walked into:
- 5Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
- 6Someone who walks in (to a place, etc):
- 7A demonstration or protest in which the participants assemble outside a facility, gain media exposure, and enter the facility in unison.
- 8A person whose original soul has departed the body and been replaced with another.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how walk-in appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
a walk-in bathroom, a walk-in apartment, lived in a walk-in on Lime Street
As Officer Byrne watched the front of the building he observed about ten people enter and leave a walk-in apartment unrelated to the buy and bust operation.
Etymology
Deverbal from walk in.
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.