# home

> English word · Noun · IPA /həʊm/ · frequency rank #149

## Definitions
1. A dwelling.
2. A dwelling.
3. A dwelling.
4. A dwelling.
5. A dwelling.
6. A dwelling.
7. A dwelling.
8. One’s native land; the place or country in which one dwells; the place where one’s ancestors dwell or dwelt.
9. The locality where a thing is usually found, or was first found, or where it is naturally abundant; habitat; seat.
10. A focus point.
11. A focus point.
12. A focus point.
13. A focus point.
14. A focus point.
15. Clipping of home directory.

## Etymology
From Middle English hōm, from Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz (“home, village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱóymos (“village, home”), from the root *tḱey-. Doublet of heyem.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hame (“home”), Yola haime, hime, hyme (“home”), Saterland Frisian Heem (“home”), Alemannic German haim, hei, heim, hemmu (“home”), Bavarian hama, hame (“home”), Cimbrian hòam, huam (“home”), Dutch heem, heim (“home”), German Heim (“home”), Limburgish heim, Héïm (“home”), Luxembourgish Heem (“home”), Mòcheno hoa'm (“home”), Vilamovian ham, hām, haom (“home”), Yiddish היים (heym, “home”), Danish hjem (“home”), Faroese, Icelandic heim (“home”), heimur (“world”), Norwegian Bokmål heim, hjem (“home”), Norwegian Nynorsk heim (“home”), Swedish hem (“home”), Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌹𐌼𐍃 (haims, “village”), Irish caoimh (“dear”), Lithuanian kaimas (“village”), šeima (“family”), Albanian komb (“nation, people”), Old Church Slavonic сѣмь (sěmĭ, “seed”), Ancient Greek κώμη (kṓmē, “village”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey- (“to lie”) (compare Hittite [script needed] (kittari, “it lies”), Ancient Greek κεῖμαι (keîmai, “to lie down”), Latin civis (“citizen”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬉𐬙𐬈 (saēte, “he lies, rests”), Sanskrit शये (śáye, “he lies”)).

## Easily confused with
- **how** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-how)
- **hot** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hot)
- **hop** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hop)
- **hon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hon)
- **hum** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hum)
- **hue** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hue)
- **hoo** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hoo)
- **hye** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hye)
- **Hou** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hou)
- **hoy** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hoy)
- **hos** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hos)
- **hse** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hse)
- **hrm** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hrm)
- **hor** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hor)
- **HOV** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hov)
- **hope** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hope)
- **hour** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hour)
- **huge** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-huge)
- **host** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-host)
- **hong** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/home-vs-hong)

## Common misspellings (4)
`hhome`, `hmoe`, `hoem`, `ohme`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/home