wish list
"wish-list" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“wish list” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A list of desired things.
Corpus desk
Index EN-wish-list · wish list · English
wish list · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 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 | wish list |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “wish list” in English
Rare enough to double-check
wish list is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A list of desired things.".
wish list doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is wish list, spelled W-I-S-H- -L-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1A list of desired things.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how wish list appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Also on the wish list is completion of the Borders Railway, electrification to Stirling/Perth/Inverness and Dundee/Aberdeen, as well as upgrades to the Cumbrian Coast Line and electrification of Barrow-Carnforth and Windermere-Oxenholme.
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.