malthouse
"malthouse" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“malthouse” is uncommon English (frequency #87,522 among 4,057 “M” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,522
- frequency rank, English
- 4,057
- “M” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A plant where malt is produced.
Corpus desk
Index EN-malthouse · malthouse · English
malthouse · rank #87,522 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,522
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 4,057
- PHOTO-FINISH malar
Nearest frequency peer: malar (-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 “malthouse”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- maillot
maillot
12,482 corpus weight
- makerspace
makerspace
12,481 corpus weight
- malar
malar
12,480 corpus weight
- malthouse
malthouse
12,479 corpus weight
- mangas
mangas
12,477 corpus weight
- mangling
mangling
12,476 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “malthouse” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | malthouse |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #87,522 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “malthouse” in English
Rare enough to double-check
malthouse is uncommon English at frequency #87,522 among 4,057 “M” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A plant where malt is produced.".
Zero misspellings are on record for malthouse in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Old English mealthūs, equivalent to malt + house. The correct English form is malthouse, spelled M-A-L-T-H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A plant where malt is produced.
Etymology
From Old English mealthūs, equivalent to malt + house.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).