hothouse
"hothouse" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“hothouse” is uncommon English (frequency #60,163 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,163
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A heated greenhouse.
Corpus desk
Index EN-hothouse · hothouse · English
hothouse · rank #60,163 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,163
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH hotelier
Nearest frequency peer: hotelier (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “hothouse”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- holme
holme
39,842 corpus weight
- horrifically
horrifically
39,840 corpus weight
- hotelier
hotelier
39,839 corpus weight
- hothouse
hothouse
39,838 corpus weight
- houseguest
houseguest
39,837 corpus weight
- Hx
Hx
39,835 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “hothouse” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | hothouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “hothouse” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
hothouse is uncommon English at frequency #60,163 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for hothouse, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house. The correct English form is hothouse, spelled H-O-T-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A heated greenhouse.
- 2An environment in which growth or development is encouraged naturally or artificially; a hotbed.
- 3An environment full of conflict or plots.
- 4A bagnio, or bathing house; a brothel.
- 5A heated room for drying greenware.
- 6A hot state in global climate.
Etymology
From Middle English hothous, equivalent to hot + house.
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.