disorderly house
"disorderly-house" is a 15-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“disorderly house” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brothel.
Corpus desk
Index EN-disorderly-house · disorderly house · English
disorderly house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 16 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "D" 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 | disorderly house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “disorderly house” in English
Rare enough to double-check
disorderly house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brothel.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for disorderly house, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is disorderly house, spelled D-I-S-O-R-D-E-R-L-Y- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A brothel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how disorderly house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses […].
Pekara, along with Officers Robert Margelewski and Roger O'Brien then ordered the theater lights turned on and began making arrests. Sixteen men were charged as inmates of a disorderly house and the cashier was arrested as the keeper of a disorderly house. The man from Elgin was arrested on charges of soliciting an act of prostitution.
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.