house of detention
"house-of-detention" is a 16-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“house of detention” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A prison, especially a temporary one.
Corpus desk
Index EN-house-of-detention · house of detention · English
house of detention · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 18 letters
- VOW-8 8 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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | house of detention |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “house of detention” in English
Rare enough to double-check
house of detention is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A prison, especially a temporary one.".
No misspelling variants are generated for house of detention in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From house + of + detention. The correct English form is house of detention, spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -D-E-T-E-N-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1A prison, especially a temporary one.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how house of detention appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mama looked down and spit on the ground / Every time my name gets mentioned / The papa say "Oy, if I get that boy / I'm gonna stick him in the house of detention"
Etymology
From house + of + detention.
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.