apartment house
"apartment-house" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apartment house” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Synonym of apartment building: any building comprising apartments.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apartment-house · apartment house · English
apartment house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apartment house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “apartment house” in English
Rare enough to double-check
apartment house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apartment house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Heritage House is a ten-story apartment house for seniors in the heart of downtown.
Armitage House is a stately old home on Main Street; it was built in the 1910s as the private home of a local factory owner, and years later it was converted into a trendy apartment house. [tour bus banter]
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.