houses

[haʊzɪz]

/[haʊzɪz]/ unknown

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The verdict

“houses” is uncommon German (frequency #66,335 among 3,372 “H” headwords), classed as an unknown. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,335
frequency rank, German
3,372
“H” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plural von house

Corpus desk

Index DE-houses · houses · German

houses · rank #66,335 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,335
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,372
  • PHOTO-FINISH Hundewelpen

Nearest frequency peer: Hundewelpen (+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.

Langschwanz-Ränge nahe „houses“

Dünnes Band: Balken invertieren den Rang, seltenere Formen wirken kürzer

corpus weight

What this shows Langschwanz-Sicht: wo „houses“ gegen ähnlich seltene deutsche Ränge sitzt.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for houses
PropertyValue
Headwordhouses
LanguageGerman
Part of speechUnknown
IPA[haʊzɪz]
Letters6
Frequency rank#66,335
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Langschwanz-Rang von „houses“ im Deutschen

Diese Skala geht vom Kern des Alltagdeutschen (links) bis zum seltenen Langschwanz (rechts).housesfällt in diesen Seltenheitsbereich:

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

Die Skala ist logarithmisch (jeder Tick ≈ 10× seltener). Seltene Nachbarn derselben Bandbreite: „Hundewelpen“ (#66,336), „Hyperbel“ (#66,337), „Häretiker“ (#66,338). Unter 3,372 „H“-Lemmata liegt „houses“ bei #66,335. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

houses is uncommon German at frequency #66,335 among 3,372 “H” headwords, classed as anunknown, transcribed [haʊzɪz]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plural von house".

houses doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is houses, spelled H-O-U-S-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Plural von 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 "houses"?
"houses" is spelled H-O-U-S-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is [haʊzɪz].
What does "houses" mean?
As an unknown, "houses" means: Plural von house
How do you pronounce "houses"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "houses" is [haʊzɪz]. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "houses" come from?
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Similar German words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked German headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Kadenz#66,372Happel#66,291kneift#66,393giving#66,271

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list