apartment house
"apartment-house" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apartment house” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apartment house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apartment house” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for apartment house is 15 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
apartment house has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is apartment house, spelled A-P-A-R-T-M-E-N-T- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.
- 2A house comparable in size to a single-family house but comprising several apartments; typically not more than two or three stories tall and containing a single-digit number of apartments (such as two to six).
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “apartment house”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-P-A-R-T-M-E-N-T- -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.