housings
/ˈhaʊzɪŋz/
"housings" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“housings” is uncommon English (frequency #54,842 among 2,646 “H” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,842
- frequency rank, English
- 2,646
- “H” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - plural of housing
Corpus desk
Index EN-housings · housings · English
housings · rank #54,842 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,842
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,646
- PHOTO-FINISH huzzah
Nearest frequency peer: huzzah (+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 “housings”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- homespun
homespun
45,164 corpus weight
- homozygous
homozygous
45,162 corpus weight
- Horta
Horta
45,161 corpus weight
- housings
housings
45,159 corpus weight
- huzzah
huzzah
45,158 corpus weight
- hydrodynamic
hydrodynamic
45,157 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “housings” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | housings |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈhaʊzɪŋz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #54,842 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “housings” in English
Rare enough to double-check
housings is uncommon English at frequency #54,842 among 2,646 “H” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈhaʊzɪŋz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "plural of housing".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for housings, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct English form is housings, spelled H-O-U-S-I-N-G-S.
Definition
- 1plural of housing
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).