children's home
"children-s-home" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“children's 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
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A home for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them. Public, private, and public-private versions exist in various countries.
Corpus desk
Index EN-children-s-home · children's home · English
children's home · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 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 | children's home |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “children's home” in English
Rare enough to double-check
children's home is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A home for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them. Public, private, and public-private versions exist in various countries.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for children's home, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is children's home, spelled C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N-'-S- -H-O-M-E.
Definition
- 1A home for the care and protection of children whose parents have died or can no longer care for them. Public, private, and public-private versions exist in various countries.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how children's home appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonyms: orphanage (not always different), group home
This word in other languages
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.