drafthouse
"drafthouse" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drafthouse” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,230 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #87,230
- frequency rank, English
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | drafthouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “drafthouse” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for drafthouse is 10 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #87,230 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.".
Zero misspellings are on record for drafthouse in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Etymologically, the entry records: From draft + house. The correct English form is drafthouse, spelled D-R-A-F-T-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
Etymology
From draft + 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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Using “drafthouse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-A-F-T-H-O-U-S-E - 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.