house of accommodation

noun

"house-of-accommodation" is a 20-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
22
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A brothel.

Corpus desk

Index EN-house-of-accommodation · house of accommodation · English

house of accommodation · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 22 letters
  • VOW-10 10 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" 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.

Key facts for house of accommodation
PropertyValue
Headwordhouse of accommodation
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechNoun
Letters22
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “house of accommodation” in English

house of accommodationranks outside the top 100,000 English headwords, in the long tail of specialist, archaic, or seldom-used vocabulary, exactly the territory where a reader stops mid-sentence to double-check spelling.

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

Rare enough to double-check

house of accommodation is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A brothel.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for house of accommodation, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is house of accommodation, spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    A brothel.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. As soon then as the evening began, and the shew of a shop was shut, the academy open'd; the mask of mock-modesty was completely taken off, and all the girls deliver'd over to their respective calls of pleasure or interest with their men; and none of that sex was promiscuously admitted, but only such as Mrs. Cole was previously satisfied with their charact…

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 "house of accommodation"?
"house of accommodation" is spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -A-C-C-O-M-M-O-D-A-T-I-O-N.
What does "house of accommodation" mean?
As a noun, "house of accommodation" means: A brothel.
What language does "house of accommodation" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list