row house
"row-house" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“row 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
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
Corpus desk
Index EN-row-house · row house · English
row house · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "R" 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 | row house |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “row house” in English
Rare enough to double-check
row house is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof".
No misspelling variants are generated for row house in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: From row + house. The correct English form is row house, spelled R-O-W- -H-O-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how row house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.
When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.
Etymology
From row + 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.