big house
"big-house" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“big 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prison, jail.
Corpus desk
Index EN-big-house · big house · English
big house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "B" 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 | big house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “big house” in English
Rare enough to double-check
big house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for big house, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is big house, spelled B-I-G- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Prison, jail.
- 2The workhouse.
- 3A religious building of the Delaware Indians, representing the cosmos.
- 4A plantation house
- 5Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, house.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how big house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He was 38 years old and had been in the big house twice for shooting scrapes.
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.