housewarming
"housewarming" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“housewarming” is uncommon English (frequency #59,454 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,454
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A party to celebrate moving into a new home.
Corpus desk
Index EN-housewarming · housewarming · English
housewarming · rank #59,454 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,454
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH horsemanship
Nearest frequency peer: horsemanship (-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 “housewarming”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- honeydew
honeydew
40,551 corpus weight
- honeypot
honeypot
40,550 corpus weight
- horsemanship
horsemanship
40,548 corpus weight
- housewarming
housewarming
40,547 corpus weight
- hustings
hustings
40,544 corpus weight
- Hutcherson
Hutcherson
40,543 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “housewarming” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | housewarming |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,454 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “housewarming” in English
Rare enough to double-check
housewarming is uncommon English at frequency #59,454 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for housewarming, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From house + warming. The correct English form is housewarming, spelled H-O-U-S-E-W-A-R-M-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1A party to celebrate moving into a new home.
- 2The act of welcoming a person/family to their newly purchased or newly rented home.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how housewarming appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness.
a housewarming gift
Etymology
From house + warming.
Antonyms
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); 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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).