house

/haʊs/

//haʊs// noun

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The verdict

“house” has 7 generated spelling variants in the Spanish index at frequency #4,909. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,909
frequency rank, Spanish
1,569
“H” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Casa.

Corpus desk

Index ES-house · house · Spanish

house · rank #4,909 · 7 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,909
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-MID 1,569
  • PHOTO-FINISH himno

Nearest frequency peer: himno (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pares de rango junto al imán ortográfico “house”

Misma franja de rareza: útil si un typo cae en un lema vecino

corpus weight

What this shows “house” está entre estos pares FrequencyWords; la profundidad de typo se mide aparte en el gráfico de distancia de edición.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

house vs Hue
40% similar
house vs huye
60% similar
house vs hule
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for house
PropertyValue
Headwordhouse
LanguageSpanish
Part of speechNoun
IPA/haʊs/
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,909
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frecuencia del imán ortográfico “house”

De izquierda a derecha: las pocas palabras que cargan el habla diaria, luego la cola larga casi invisible.housecae aquí:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Los ticks avanzan en logaritmo; cada uno es del orden de diez veces más raro. En la misma franja de rareza aparecen “himno” (#4,908), “ideales” (#4,910), “helado” (#4,907). Entre 1,569 lemas con “H”, “house” va en #4,909. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around house (IPA /haʊs/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,909 among 1,569 “H” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for house, with forms such as "hhouse", "hosue", and "houce". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "Hue", "huye", "hule", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is house, spelled H-O-U-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Casa.
  2. 2
    Sala.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how house appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me All the days of my life; And I will dwell in the house of the Lord Forever

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • hhouse
  • hosue
  • houce
  • houes
  • housse
  • huose
  • ohuse

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of house - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

hhouse1hosue2houce1houes2housse1huose2ohuse2
Edit distance from "house"

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "house"?
"house" is spelled H-O-U-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is /haʊs/.
What does "house" mean?
As a noun, "house" means: Casa.
What words are commonly confused with "house"?
"house" is commonly confused with "Hue", "huye", "hule". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "house"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "house" is /haʊs/. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "house" come from?
"house" is a Spanish word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar Spanish words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "house", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked Spanish headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

himno#4,908fruta#4,902flota#4,898matan#4,920

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

filas7 variantssexy7 variantsTexas7 variantsalegra7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list