almshouse
"almshouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“almshouse” is uncommon English (frequency #89,095 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,095
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.
Corpus desk
Index EN-almshouse · almshouse · English
almshouse · rank #89,095 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,095
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH allopathic
Nearest frequency peer: allopathic (-2 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 “almshouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- alliant
alliant
10,911 corpus weight
- allogeneic
allogeneic
10,910 corpus weight
- allograft
allograft
10,909 corpus weight
- allopathic
allopathic
10,908 corpus weight
- almshouse
almshouse
10,906 corpus weight
- amaru
amaru
10,902 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “almshouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | almshouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,095 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “almshouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
almshouse is uncommon English at frequency #89,095 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.".
almshouse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English almeshous, almassehous, equivalent to alms + house. The correct English form is almshouse, spelled A-L-M-S-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A building of residence for the poor, sick or elderly of a parish. Originally founded by the Church, and usually funded by charitable donations.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how almshouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. In almshouse, hospital, and jail, in misery's every refuge, where…
Etymology
From Middle English almeshous, almassehous, equivalent to alms + house.
Synonyms
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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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