working class
"working-class" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“working class” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | working class |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “working class” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
working class is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.".
working class has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is working class, spelled W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -C-L-A-S-S.
Definition
- 1The social class of those who perform physical work for a living, as opposed to the professional or middle class, the upper class, or others.
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.
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Using “working class”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is W-O-R-K-I-N-G- -C-L-A-S-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.