longhouse
"longhouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“longhouse” is an uncommon English word, ranked #83,466 in English word frequency and used as a noun.
- #83,466
- frequency rank, English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | longhouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #83,466 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “longhouse” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for longhouse is 9 letters long, classified as a noun. Corpus data places it at rank #83,466 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for longhouse, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: From long + house. The sense of outhouse possibly derives from Whittington's Longhouse, a public toilet in medieval London, but first attested in a translation of a similar French expression. The correct English form is longhouse, spelled L-O-N-G-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A long communal housing of the Iroquois and some other American Indians, the Malaysians, the Indonesians, the Vikings, and many other peoples.
- 2An outhouse, an outbuilding used for urination and defecation.
- 3The modern society, perceived as increasingly matriarchal and overly egalitarian, and therefore stifling nonconformity and masculine values.
Etymology
From long + house. The sense of outhouse possibly derives from Whittington's Longhouse, a public toilet in medieval London, but first attested in a translation of a similar French expression.
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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Using “longhouse”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is L-O-N-G-H-O-U-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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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.