# Bauhaus

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /ˈbaʊhaʊs/ · frequency rank #46,922

## Definitions
1. A modernist style characterized by the absence of ornamentation and by harmony between the function of a building or an object and its design.

## Etymology
Borrowed from German Bauhaus (“house of architecture”), from Bau (“building, construction”) + Haus (“house”). The word is derived from the Staatliches Bauhaus (State School of Construction), an art school in Weimar, Germany, founded in 1919 by German architect Walter Gropius (1883–1969).

## Common misspellings (9)
`abuhaus`, `bahuaus`, `bauahus`, `bauhasu`, `bauhauss`, `bauhhaus`, `bauhuas`, `bbauhaus`, `buahaus`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/bauhaus