draught-house
"draught-house" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“draught-house” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | draught-house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “draught-house” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for draught-house is 13 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.".
draught-house doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From draught + house. The correct English form is draught-house, spelled D-R-A-U-G-H-T---H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Etymology
From draught + house.
Synonyms
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.
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Using “draught-house”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is D-R-A-U-G-H-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.