public house
"public-house" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“public house” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.
Corpus desk
Index EN-public-house · public house · English
public house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "P" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | public house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “public house” in English
Rare enough to double-check
public house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.".
public house has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct English form is public house, spelled P-U-B-L-I-C- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how public house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Those of us who care for the nation's defence have been astonished to hear that confidential documents have been left in a public house.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.