housebound
"housebound" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“housebound” is uncommon English (frequency #87,380 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,380
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
Corpus desk
Index EN-housebound · housebound · English
housebound · rank #87,380 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,380
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH houndstooth
Nearest frequency peer: houndstooth (-1 rank slots)
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.
Long-tail ranks near “housebound”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- hotfix
hotfix
12,625 corpus weight
- hoult
hoult
12,623 corpus weight
- houndstooth
houndstooth
12,622 corpus weight
- housebound
housebound
12,621 corpus weight
- Housley
Housley
12,620 corpus weight
- hox
hox
12,617 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “housebound” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | housebound |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,380 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “housebound” in English
Rare enough to double-check
housebound is uncommon English at frequency #87,380 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anadjective. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for housebound in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From house + bound. The correct English form is housebound, spelled H-O-U-S-E-B-O-U-N-D.
Definition
- 1Restricted to one's home, as by physical infirmity.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how housebound appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Returning to the sculptor described earlier, we know why that young woman suffered. She was housebound and bedbound, her face was changed by steroids, she was masculinized by her treatment, one breast was scarred, and she had almost no hair.
Etymology
From house + bound.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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