drafthouse
"drafthouse" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“drafthouse” is uncommon English (frequency #87,230 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,230
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A business establishment where alcoholic beverages such as beer, wine, ale, etc, are served, but not hard liquor.
Corpus desk
Index EN-drafthouse · drafthouse · English
drafthouse · rank #87,230 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,230
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH Drac
Nearest frequency peer: Drac (-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 “drafthouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- doubter
doubter
12,774 corpus weight
- Dowson
Dowson
12,773 corpus weight
- Drac
Drac
12,772 corpus weight
- drafthouse
drafthouse
12,771 corpus weight
- Dubinsky
Dubinsky
12,768 corpus weight
- Dunton
Dunton
12,766 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “drafthouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “drafthouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
drafthouse is uncommon English at frequency #87,230 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how drafthouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Going to Tiffany's on Young Circle in Hollywood for the 3-for-1's, open 'til 3 AM, now a cinema and drafthouse.
Music and singing, shouts and laughter came from many of the buildings they passed—inns and drafthouses and restaurants alive with the lives of ordinary people who had toiled all day in the sun.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).