bathhouse
/ˈbæθˌhaʊs/
"bathhouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bathhouse” has 11 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #43,520. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,520
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A building with baths for communal use.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bathhouse · bathhouse · English
bathhouse · rank #43,520 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #43,520
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH Bamford
Nearest frequency peer: Bamford (-1 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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “bathhouse”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Bahama
Bahama
56,484 corpus weight
- baldness
baldness
56,483 corpus weight
- Bamford
Bamford
56,482 corpus weight
- bathhouse
bathhouse
56,481 corpus weight
- Bayonne
Bayonne
56,480 corpus weight
- beekeeping
beekeeping
56,479 corpus weight
What this shows “bathhouse” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bathhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,520 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “bathhouse”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around bathhouse (IPA /ˈbæθˌhaʊs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,520 among 4,121 “B” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for bathhouse, with forms such as "abthhouse", "bahthouse", and "bathhosue". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "boathouse", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (… The correct English form is bathhouse, spelled B-A-T-H-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A building with baths for communal use.
- 2A building where swimmers can change clothes.
- 3A business with bath-like facilities, which chiefly serves as a place for sexual encounters, especially among men.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how bathhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] a plethora of taverns, victuals, brew houses, hostelries, bathhouses, brothels, bearbaiting and bullbaiting arenas jostled for space with shops of stockfishmongers, garlicmongers, and bakemongers.
The landslide hit Xiangning county in Shanxi province early Friday evening, provincial authorities said. Two residential buildings, home to a total of 14 households, and a public bathhouse collapsed under the weight of the falling earth.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English bathhous, bathous, from Old English bæþhūs (“bathhouse”), equivalent to bath + house. Cognate with Dutch badhuis (“bathhouse”), German Badehaus (“bathhouse”), German Low German Baadhuus, Boodhuus (“bathhouse”), Danish badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Bokmål badehus (“bathhouse”), Norwegian Nynorsk badehus (“bathhouse”), Swedish badhus (“bathhouse”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- abthhouse
- bahthouse
- bathhosue
- bathhoues
- bathhousse
- bathhuose
- bathohuse
- bathouse
- batthhouse
- bbathhouse
- btahhouse
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of bathhouse - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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