alehouse
"alehouse" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alehouse” is uncommon English (frequency #98,949 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,949
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.
Corpus desk
Index EN-alehouse · alehouse · English
alehouse · rank #98,949 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,949
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Alegria
Nearest frequency peer: Alegria (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “alehouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Agard
Agard
1,061 corpus weight
- aiga
aiga
1,056 corpus weight
- Akademi
Akademi
1,055 corpus weight
- Alegria
Alegria
1,053 corpus weight
- alehouse
alehouse
1,052 corpus weight
- Aleut
Aleut
1,051 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “alehouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alehouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,949 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “alehouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
alehouse is uncommon English at frequency #98,949 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alehouse in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *aluþhūsą Old English ealuhūs Middle English alehous English alehouse From Middle English alehous, alehuse from Old English ealuhūs. By surface analysis, ale + house. The correct English form is alehouse, spelled A-L-E-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alehouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Find him in a pulpit but twiſe in the yeare, And Ile find him fortie times in the ale-houſe taſting ſtrong beare.
But go to—carry thy roisterers elsewhere—to the alehouse if they list, and there are crowns to pay your charges—make out the day’s madness without doing more mischief, and be wise men to-morrow—and hereafter learn to serve a good cause better than by acting like ruffians.
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *aluþhūsą Old English ealuhūs Middle English alehous English alehouse From Middle English alehous, alehuse from Old English ealuhūs. By surface analysis, ale + 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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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