house of worship
/haʊs ɒv ˈwɜːʃɪp/
"house-of-worship" is a 14-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“house of worship” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 16
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | house of worship |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /haʊs ɒv ˈwɜːʃɪp/ |
| Letters | 16 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “house of worship” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for house of worship is 16 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /haʊs ɒv ˈwɜːʃɪp/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for house of worship, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is house of worship, spelled H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -W-O-R-S-H-I-P.
Definition
- 1A religious edifice; a mosque, church, synagogue, temple, or similar place where believers go to practice their faith.
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.
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Using “house of worship”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is H-O-U-S-E- -O-F- -W-O-R-S-H-I-P - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /haʊs ɒv ˈwɜːʃɪp/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.