bakehouse
/ˈbeɪkhaʊs/
"bakehouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bakehouse” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
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- below top-frequency English
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According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bakehouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbeɪkhaʊs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “bakehouse” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
bakehouse is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbeɪkhaʊs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
bakehouse has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakeho… The correct English form is bakehouse, spelled B-A-K-E-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A building or an apartment used for the preparing and baking of bread and other baked goods.
- 2A building principally containing ovens.
- 3Bakery.
Etymology
From Middle English bakhows, bakhous, bachous, from Old English bæchūs (“bakery, bakehouse”), from Proto-West Germanic *bakahūs (“bakehouse”), equivalent to bake + house. Cognate with Scots bake-hous (“bakehouse, bakery”), Saterland Frisian Bakhuus (“bakehouse”), West Frisian bakkhûs (“bakehouse”), Dutch bakhuis (“bakehouse”), German Low German Backhuus (“bakehouse”), German Backhaus (“bakehouse, bakery”).
This word in other languages
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 “bakehouse”
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- The one correct English spelling is B-A-K-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.