draught-house
"draught-house" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“draught-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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An outhouse; an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Corpus desk
Index EN-draught-house · draught-house · English
draught-house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | draught-house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “draught-house” in English
Rare enough to double-check
draught-house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how draught-house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
They... brake downe the house of Baal, and made it a draught-house.
Moslems and Hindus [...] abhor the unclean and unhealthy use of paper without ablution; and the people of India call European draught-houses, by way of opprobrium, "Kághaz-khánah" = paper closets.
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.