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housie

/ˈhaʊzi/noun

housie is spelled H-O-U-S-I-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, housie means “A gambling game similar to bingo” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of housie is housies.

How many letters and syllables are in housie?

Letters6: H-O-U-S-I-E
In writingabout once in every 76 million words; the 275,970th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is housie?

Housie appears about once in every 76 million words in written English, the 275,970th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce housie?

  • Australia /ˈhaʊzi/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_housie.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of housie

  • housies plural
  • housie-housie

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does housie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    AustraliaA gambling game similar to bingo.

  2. 2

    slangOne who is not homeless.

  3. 3

    rareDiminutive of house. (a form of house)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does housie come from?

From house + -ie.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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