grindhouse
"grindhouse" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“grindhouse” is uncommon English (frequency #92,665 among 2,313 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,665
- frequency rank, English
- 2,313
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films
Corpus desk
Index EN-grindhouse · grindhouse · English
grindhouse · rank #92,665 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,665
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,313
- PHOTO-FINISH Grilli
Nearest frequency peer: Grilli (-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 “grindhouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Goucher
Goucher
7,342 corpus weight
- graceless
graceless
7,340 corpus weight
- greeny
greeny
7,339 corpus weight
- Grilli
Grilli
7,337 corpus weight
- grindhouse
grindhouse
7,336 corpus weight
- guilder
guilder
7,332 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “grindhouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grindhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,665 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “grindhouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
grindhouse is uncommon English at frequency #92,665 among 2,313 “G” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films".
grindhouse has no tracked misspelling variants, 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 grind + house. * Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists. * Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s. The correct English form is grindhouse, spelled G-R-I-N-D-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A low-budget film theater that shows primarily exploitation films
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how grindhouse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
For Mr. Bava[…], the road from the grindhouse to the art house — or at least, the virtual art house of the DVD player — has turned out to be surprisingly, encouragingly short.
Etymology
From grind + house. * Perhaps from the grinding or cranking motion employed by early projectionists. * Perhaps from bump and grind (dubious). The term may originally have been used for burlesque houses in the 1940s.
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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