housebuilding
"housebuilding" is a 13-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“housebuilding” is uncommon English (frequency #97,119 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,119
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The building of houses
Corpus desk
Index EN-housebuilding · housebuilding · English
housebuilding · rank #97,119 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,119
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH hotheaded
Nearest frequency peer: hotheaded (-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 “housebuilding”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Hirono
Hirono
2,888 corpus weight
- Hoeven
Hoeven
2,885 corpus weight
- hotheaded
hotheaded
2,883 corpus weight
- housebuildi…
housebuilding
2,882 corpus weight
- hundredfold
hundredfold
2,879 corpus weight
- Hurstville
Hurstville
2,877 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “housebuilding” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | housebuilding |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #97,119 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “housebuilding” in English
Rare enough to double-check
housebuilding is uncommon English at frequency #97,119 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The building of houses".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for housebuilding, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable 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 + building. The correct English form is housebuilding, spelled H-O-U-S-E-B-U-I-L-D-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1The building of houses
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how housebuilding appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
He says he'll be spending the £5bn available to him to "jump-start" the capital's stalling housebuilding market in pursuit of his target of providing an additional 50,000 "affordable" homes over the next three years.
Etymology
From house + building.
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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