rooming house
"rooming-house" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“rooming 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
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A house which rents out furnished apartments.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rooming house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “rooming house” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
rooming house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rooming house, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct English form is rooming house, spelled R-O-O-M-I-N-G- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A house which rents out furnished apartments.
- 2A building with small, basic, inexpensive apartments for rent, often without en suite bathrooms.
- 3A house which rents out rooms and may also supply board for an added price: synonym of boarding 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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “rooming house”
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- The one correct English spelling is R-O-O-M-I-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.