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meetinghouse

/ˈmitɪŋˌhaʊs/noun

meetinghouse is spelled M-E-E-T-I-N-G-H-O-U-S-E: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, meetinghouse means “A building where people meet for a purpose” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of meetinghouse is meetinghouses.

How many letters and syllables are in meetinghouse?

Letters12: M-E-E-T-I-N-G-H-O-U-S-E
In writingabout once in every 11 million words; the 100,430th 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 meetinghouse?

Meetinghouse appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 100,430th 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 meetinghouse?

  • US /ˈmitɪŋˌhaʊs/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-meetinghouse.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of meetinghouse

  • meetinghouses plural
  • meeting house
  • meeting-house

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

What does meetinghouse mean?

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

noun

  1. 1

    A building where people meet for a purpose.

  2. 2

    A building where a Quaker congregation assembles for worship.

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

Where does meetinghouse come from?

From meeting + house.

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

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