public house
"public-house" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“public house” is outside the top-ranked English vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A pub; a British bar or tavern, often selling food and sometimes lodging; an inn.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | public house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “public house” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for public house is 12 letters long, classified as a noun. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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.
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Using “public house”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is P-U-B-L-I-C- -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.