domus
"domus" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“domus” is an uncommon English word, ranked #70,613 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #70,613
- frequency rank, English
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | domus |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #70,613 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “domus” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for domus is 5 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #70,613 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for domus, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo. The correct English form is domus, spelled D-O-M-U-S.
Definition
- 1A farmstead with its people, plants and animals, considered as a unit.
- 2In the UK a college (or collectively its fellows) in Cambridge or Oxford.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin domus. Doublet of dome and duomo.
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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Using “domus”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-O-M-U-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.