wine cellar

noun

"wine-cellar" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An underground place for storing wine at a constant temperature.

Corpus desk

Index EN-wine-cellar · wine cellar · English

wine cellar · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "W" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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 wine cellar
PropertyValue
Headwordwine cellar
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters11
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “wine cellar” in English

wine cellarsits 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

wine cellar is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

No misspelling variants are generated for wine cellar in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English wyn celer, wyne saler. The correct English form is wine cellar, spelled W-I-N-E- -C-E-L-L-A-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    An underground place for storing wine at a constant temperature.
  2. 2
    A collection of wines.

Etymology

From Middle English wyn celer, wyne saler.

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 "wine cellar"?
"wine cellar" is spelled W-I-N-E- -C-E-L-L-A-R.
What does "wine cellar" mean?
As a noun, "wine cellar" means: An underground place for storing wine at a constant temperature.
What is the origin of the word "wine cellar"?
From Middle English wyn celer, wyne saler. See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list