bunkhouse
/ˈbʌŋkˌhaʊs/
"bunkhouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“bunkhouse” is uncommon English (frequency #68,068 among 4,121 “B” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,068
- frequency rank, English
- 4,121
- “B” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
Corpus desk
Index EN-bunkhouse · bunkhouse · English
bunkhouse · rank #68,068 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,068
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,121
- PHOTO-FINISH bushido
Nearest frequency peer: bushido (+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 “bunkhouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Bridgetown
Bridgetown
31,940 corpus weight
- bunkhouse
bunkhouse
31,933 corpus weight
- bushido
bushido
31,932 corpus weight
- Byun
Byun
31,930 corpus weight
- calabrese
calabrese
31,927 corpus weight
- callousness
callousness
31,926 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “bunkhouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | bunkhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈbʌŋkˌhaʊs/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “bunkhouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
bunkhouse is uncommon English at frequency #68,068 among 4,121 “B” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈbʌŋkˌhaʊs/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.".
bunkhouse doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From bunk + house. The correct English form is bunkhouse, spelled B-U-N-K-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A building providing sleeping quarters for workers or guests, especially in a rural setting.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how bunkhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The men resided in a huge bunk house, which consisted of one room only, with a shack outside where the cooking was done. In the large room were a dozen bunks ; half of them in a very dishevelled state, […]
Etymology
From bunk + house.
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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