care home
"care-home" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“care home” 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) - A place of residence for people who have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly, but who do not need constant nursing care.
Corpus desk
Index EN-care-home · care home · English
care home · 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 "C" 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 | care home |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “care home” in English
Rare enough to double-check
care home is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A place of residence for people who have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly, but who do not need constant nursing care.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for care home, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From care + home. The correct English form is care home, spelled C-A-R-E- -H-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1A place of residence for people who have significant deficiencies with activities of daily living, such as the elderly, but who do not need constant nursing care.
Etymology
From care + home.
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.