Which to use
“house” and “houx” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #5,569
- “house” frequency rank
- #45,659
- “houx” frequency rank
- 51228
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | house | houx |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Genre musical composé, basiquement, d’un rythme minimal, d’une ligne de basse funky, et de voix. | Arbre toujours vert, de la famille des aquifoliacées, dont les feuilles sont luisantes et armées de piquants et dont le fruit est une baie d’un très beau rouge. |
Where the eye mixes house and houx
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 3 letters in sequence. house runs 5 letters (CVVCV) against houx's 4 (CVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: house vs houx
A purely visual mix-up. house (^((h aspiré))\aws\) and houx (^((h aspiré))\u\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 51228, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
house is recorded at frequency rank #5,569, classified as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\aws\. houx is at rank #45,659, tagged as anoun, pronounced ^((h aspiré))\u\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 51228, this pair ranks #156,604 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of house vs houx
Shared letters: hou. Private to "house": es. Private to "houx": x.
"house" · 5 letters · shape CVVCV · "houx" · 4 letters · shape CVVC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "house" and "houx" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Which is more common, "house" or "houx"?
Useful next steps
Eye-level mix-up between "house" and "houx" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "house" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "houx" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #156,604 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "house" and "houx" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "Houda vs houx". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #156,604 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.