brewhouse
"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
- bottega
bottega
23,408 corpus weight
- braying
braying
23,405 corpus weight
- brewhouse
brewhouse
23,403 corpus weight
- brigantine
brigantine
23,402 corpus weight
- Bude
Bude
23,397 corpus weight
- bugbear
bugbear
23,396 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “brewhouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | brewhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,598 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “brewhouse” in English
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
- 1A brewery, a place where beer is made.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how brewhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).