# household

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈhaʊshəʊld/ · frequency rank #3,171

## Definitions
1. Collectively, all the persons who live in a given house; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
2. Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
3. Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
4. A line of ancestry; a race or house.

## Etymology
From Middle English houshold. By surface analysis, house + hold.
Cognate with Scots houshald, housald, housell, howsell (“household”), Dutch huishouden (“household”) (earlier huishoud), German Low German Huushollen (“household”) (Middle Low German hūsholt), German Haushalt (“household”), Swedish hushåll (“household, family”), Norwegian husholdning (“household”).

## Easily confused with
- **householder** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/household-vs-householder)

## Common misspellings (13)
`hhousehold`, `hosuehold`, `houeshold`, `househhold`, `househlod`, `househodl`, `householdd`, `householld`, `houseohld`, `housheold`, `houssehold`, `huosehold`, `ohusehold`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/household