house-search
"house-search" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“house-search” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A thorough search of a home or other privately owned real estate as part of an official (notably judicial) investigation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-house-search · house-search · English
house-search · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 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-search |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “house-search” in English
Rare enough to double-check
house-search is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A thorough search of a home or other privately owned real estate as part of an official (notably judicial) investigation.".
No misspelling variants are generated for house-search in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is house-search, spelled H-O-U-S-E---S-E-A-R-C-H.
Definition
- 1A thorough search of a home or other privately owned real estate as part of an official (notably judicial) investigation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how house-search appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
An illegal house-search is both a grave violation of privacy and potential grounds to dismiss any evidence that is found.
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.