house

[haʊs]

/[haʊs]/ noun

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The verdict

“house” has 6 generated spelling variants in the German index at frequency #4,210. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,210
frequency rank, German
3,372
“H” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Wohnort des Menschen; Gebäude, das errichtet wurde, um in ihm zu wohnen

Corpus desk

Index DE-house · house · German

house · rank #4,210 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,210
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,372
  • PHOTO-FINISH Holstein

Nearest frequency peer: Holstein (-1 rank slots)

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.

Rang-Peers am Tippfehler-Magneten „house“

Gleiche Seltenheitsbandbreite: nützlich, wenn ein Tippfehler auf ein Peer-Lemma trifft

corpus weight

What this shows „house“ sitzt unter diesen FrequencyWords-Peers; die Tippfehlertiefe steht separat im Edit-Distance-Chart.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

house vs hus
60% similar
house vs hue
60% similar
house vs Hure
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for house
PropertyValue
Headwordhouse
LanguageGerman
Part of speechNoun
IPA[haʊs]
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,210
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Häufigkeitslage von Tippfehler-Magnet „house“

Von links nach rechts: die wenigen Träger des Alltags, dann der lange Schwanz kaum gebrauchter Formen.houseliegt hier neben dem Tippfehler-Druck:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Die Ticks laufen logarithmisch; jeder ist rund zehnmal seltener. Peers derselben Seltenheitsbandbreite: „Holstein“ (#4,209), „Immobilien“ (#4,211), „heil“ (#4,208). Unter 3,372 „H“-Lemmata liegt „house“ bei #4,210. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around house (IPA [haʊs]), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,210 among 3,372 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 11 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for house, with forms such as "hhouse", "hosue", and "houes". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "hus", "hue", "Hure", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct German form is house, spelled H-O-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Wohnort des Menschen; Gebäude, das errichtet wurde, um in ihm zu wohnen
  2. 2
    ein Musikgenre
  3. 3
    eine komplette Sammlung von Nummern in Bingo
  4. 4
    Vortragssaal des Theaters, oder das Theater selbst
  5. 5
    Debattierzimmer der Regierung
  6. 6
    Eine reale oder virtuelle (z. B. eine Website) Errichtung
  7. 7
    Das Inner Werk, z. B. das Uhrwerk
  8. 8
    Eine Dynastie, z. B. das Royal House.
  9. 9
    astrologischer Begriff (Erstes bis Zwölftes Haus)
  10. 10
    Früherer Alternativname von Bingo.
  11. 11
    das Haus/ Gehäuse eines Tiers (das Schneckenhaus)

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. In this house lives a strange family.
  2. "Mrs. Hurst and her sister scarcely opened their mouths, except to complain of fatigue, and were evidently impatient to have the house to themselves."

Synonyms

lineclan

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhouse
  • hosue
  • houes
  • housse
  • huose
  • ohuse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of house - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

hhouse1hosue2houes2housse1huose2ohuse2
Edit distance from "house"

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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "house"?
"house" is spelled H-O-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is [haʊs].
What does "house" mean?
As a noun, "house" means: Wohnort des Menschen; Gebäude, das errichtet wurde, um in ihm zu wohnen
What words are commonly confused with "house"?
"house" is commonly confused with "hus", "hue", "Hure". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "house"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "house" is [haʊs]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "house" come from?
"house" is a German word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar German words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "house", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

group#4,206grand#4,205First#4,197plant#4,225

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

fern6 variantssamt6 variantsneuem6 variantsJörg6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list