funeral home

noun

"funeral-home" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“funeral home” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
12
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A mortuary where the friends and relatives of the deceased may attend a wake, or pay their last respects.

Corpus desk

Index EN-funeral-home · funeral home · English

funeral home · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "F" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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.

Key facts for funeral home
PropertyValue
Headwordfuneral home
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters12
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “funeral home” in English

funeral homesits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

funeral home is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for funeral home, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is funeral home, spelled F-U-N-E-R-A-L- -H-O-M-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    A mortuary where the friends and relatives of the deceased may attend a wake, or pay their last respects.
  2. 2
    Business that provides interment and funeral services for the deceased.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how funeral home appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Near-synonym: mortuary

This word in other languages

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "funeral home"?
"funeral home" is spelled F-U-N-E-R-A-L- -H-O-M-E.
What does "funeral home" mean?
As a noun, "funeral home" means: A mortuary where the friends and relatives of the deceased may attend a wake, or pay their last respects.
What language does "funeral home" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list