houseman
/ˈhaʊsmən/
"houseman" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“houseman” is uncommon English (frequency #69,116 among 23,837 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,116
- frequency rank, English
- 23,837
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-houseman · houseman · English
houseman · rank #69,116 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,116
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 23,837
- PHOTO-FINISH Houten
Nearest frequency peer: Houten (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “houseman”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- Hislop
Hislop
30,889 corpus weight
- homefront
homefront
30,887 corpus weight
- houseman
houseman
30,885 corpus weight
- Houten
Houten
30,884 corpus weight
- how're
how're
30,883 corpus weight
- humbles
humbles
30,882 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “houseman” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | houseman |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhaʊsmən/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #69,116 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “houseman” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
houseman is uncommon English at frequency #69,116 among 23,837 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhaʊsmən/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for houseman, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From house + -man. The correct English form is houseman, spelled H-O-U-S-E-M-A-N.
Definition
- 1A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant.
- 2A medical graduate gaining practical experience in a hospital; a house officer.
Etymology
From house + -man.
Synonyms
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar English words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "houseman", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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.