brewhouse

noun

"brewhouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“brewhouse” is uncommon English (frequency #76,598 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#76,598
frequency rank, English
4,121
“B” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brewery, a place where beer is made.

Corpus desk

Index EN-brewhouse · brewhouse · English

brewhouse · rank #76,598 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #76,598
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 4,121
  • PHOTO-FINISH brigantine

Nearest frequency peer: brigantine (+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.

Long-tail ranks near “brewhouse”

Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter

corpus weight

What this shows Long-tail view: where “brewhouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for brewhouse
PropertyValue
Headwordbrewhouse
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters9
Frequency rank#76,598
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “brewhouse” in English

Word frequency stretches from the small set of words we reach for constantly (left) out to the long tail barely used once in a while (right).brewhousefalls in this rarity band:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

The axis is logarithmic, with each marked tick roughly ten times rarer than the last. Rare peers in the same band: “brigantine” (#76,599), “braying” (#76,596), “bottega” (#76,593). Among 4,121 “B” headwords, “brewhouse” is #76,598. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

brewhouse is uncommon English at frequency #76,598 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brewery, a place where beer is made.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for brewhouse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English brewhous, brouhous, brewehous, equivalent to brew + house. Compare Dutch brouwhuis (“brewhouse”). The correct English form is brewhouse, spelled B-R-E-W-H-O-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A brewery, a place where beer is made.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how brewhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. A large window between the restaurant bar and the small brewhouse was covered with newspaper.

Etymology

From Middle English brewhous, brouhous, brewehous, equivalent to brew + house. Compare Dutch brouwhuis (“brewhouse”).

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "brewhouse"?
"brewhouse" is spelled B-R-E-W-H-O-U-S-E.
What does "brewhouse" mean?
As a noun, "brewhouse" means: A brewery, a place where beer is made.
What is the origin of the word "brewhouse"?
From Middle English brewhous, brouhous, brewehous, equivalent to brew + house. Compare Dutch brouwhuis (“brewhouse”). See the full etymology section above for more details.
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Similar English words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "brewhouse", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list