house of office
"house-of-office" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“house of office” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 15
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Corpus desk
Index EN-house-of-office · house of office · English
house of office · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 15 letters
- VOW-7 7 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 office |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 15 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “house of office” in English
Rare enough to double-check
house of office is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.".
Zero misspellings are on record for house of office in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions". The correct English form is house of office, spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -O-F-F-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1An outhouse: an outbuilding used as a lavatory.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how house of office appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Going down my cellar to look, I put my foot into a heap of turds, by which I find that Mr Turner’s house of office is full and comes into my cellar, which doth trouble me; but I will have it helped.
I never, since I left England, till now, have regal'd Myself with a good house of Office... the holes in Germany are... too round, chiefly owing... to the broader bottoms of the Germans.
Etymology
From the mostly archaic sense of office as a "duty" or "function" and hence unmentionable "bodily functions".
Synonyms
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.