House of Lords

name

"house-of-lords" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

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

Unranked
below top-frequency English
14
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The upper chamber of the UK's Houses of Parliament.

Corpus desk

Index EN-house-of-lords · House of Lords · English

House of Lords · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 14 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "H" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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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 Lords
PropertyValue
HeadwordHouse of Lords
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechProper noun
Letters14
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “House of Lords” in English

House of Lordsranks 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 Lords is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The upper chamber of the UK's Houses of Parliament.".

House of Lords doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is House of Lords, spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -L-O-R-D-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    The upper chamber of the UK's Houses of Parliament.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. He has just become Lord Hendy, and will take his place in the House of Lords on December 12. He will be a Crossbencher, which means he will not represent a political party.

Synonyms

Gilded Chamber

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "House of Lords"?
"House of Lords" is spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -L-O-R-D-S.
What does "House of Lords" mean?
As a proper noun, "House of Lords" means: The upper chamber of the UK's Houses of Parliament.
What language does "House of Lords" come from?
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list