alehouse
"alehouse" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“alehouse” is an uncommon English word, ranked #98,949 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #98,949
- frequency rank, English
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A business, such as an inn or tavern, where ale is sold.
| 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) |
Where “alehouse” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for alehouse is 8 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #98,949 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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Using “alehouse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-E-H-O-U-S-E - 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.