booby house
"booby-house" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“booby house” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - booby-hatch; lunatic asylum
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | booby house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “booby house” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for booby house is 11 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "booby-hatch; lunatic asylum".
booby house doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is booby house, spelled B-O-O-B-Y- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1booby-hatch; lunatic asylum
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 “booby house”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is B-O-O-B-Y- -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.