coffeehouse
"coffeehouse" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“coffeehouse” is uncommon English (frequency #51,025 among 5,599 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,025
- frequency rank, English
- 5,599
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
Corpus desk
Index EN-coffeehouse · coffeehouse · English
coffeehouse · rank #51,025 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,025
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,599
- PHOTO-FINISH coincident
Nearest frequency peer: coincident (+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 “coffeehouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- chomp
chomp
48,981 corpus weight
- Ciaran
Ciaran
48,980 corpus weight
- coffeehouse
coffeehouse
48,976 corpus weight
- coincident
coincident
48,975 corpus weight
- Colfax
Colfax
48,974 corpus weight
- colonist
colonist
48,973 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “coffeehouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | coffeehouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,025 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “coffeehouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
coffeehouse is uncommon English at frequency #51,025 among 5,599 “C” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.".
Zero misspellings are on record for coffeehouse in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: From coffee + house. The correct English form is coffeehouse, spelled C-O-F-F-E-E-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1An establishment where coffee is served to clients; a café.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how coffeehouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] Miniſters are ſo wiſe to leave their Proceedings to be accounted for by Reaſoners at a Diſtance, who often mould them into Syſtems, that do not only go down very well in the Coffee-Houſe, but are Supplies for Pamphlets in the preſent Age, and may probably furniſh Materials for Memoirs and Hiſtories in the next.
In the same way that Old Europe’s coffeehouses begat insurance companies, he says, today’s political careers beget an unhealthy relationship with throat lozenges.
Etymology
From coffee + 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).