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Is house a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word house is a Scrabble US word. The word house is worth 8 points in Scrabble:

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Is house a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word house is a Scrabble UK word and has 8 points:

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Yes. The word house is a Words With Friends word. The word house is worth 8 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

HOUSE,

4-letter words (5 found)

HOES,HOSE,HUES,HUSO,SHOE,

3-letter words (15 found)

EHS,HES,HOE,HOS,HUE,OES,OHS,OSE,OUS,SHE,SHO,SOH,SOU,SUE,USE,

2-letter words (12 found)

EH,ES,HE,HO,OE,OH,OS,OU,SH,SO,UH,US,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 34 words from house according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of house

house ohuse huose uhose ouhse uohse hosue ohsue hsoue shoue oshue sohue husoe uhsoe hsuoe shuoe ushoe suhoe oushe uoshe osuhe souhe usohe suohe houes ohues huoes uhoes ouhes uohes hoeus oheus heous ehous oehus eohus hueos uheos heuos ehuos uehos euhos ouehs uoehs oeuhs eouhs ueohs euohs hoseu ohseu hsoeu shoeu osheu soheu hoesu ohesu heosu ehosu oehsu eohsu hseou sheou hesou ehsou sehou eshou osehu soehu oeshu eoshu seohu esohu huseo uhseo hsueo shueo usheo suheo hueso uheso heuso ehuso uehso euhso hseuo sheuo hesuo ehsuo sehuo eshuo useho sueho uesho eusho seuho esuho ouseh uoseh osueh soueh usoeh suoeh ouesh uoesh oeush eoush ueosh euosh oseuh soeuh oesuh eosuh seouh esouh useoh sueoh uesoh eusoh seuoh esuoh

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Definitions and meaning of house

house

Etymology 1

From Middle English hous, hus, from Old English hūs (“dwelling, shelter, house”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą (compare Scots hoose, West Frisian hûs, Dutch huis, German Haus, German Low German Huus, Danish hus, Faroese hús, Icelandic hús, Norwegian Bokmål hus, Norwegian Nynorsk hus and Swedish hus), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kews-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English meson, measoun (“house”), borrowed from Old French maison (“house”). More at hose.

The uncommon plural form housen is from Middle English husen, housen. (The Old English nominative plural was simply hūs.)

Alternative forms

  • howse (obsolete)

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hous, IPA(key): /haʊs/
  • (Canada, Virginia, Scotland) IPA(key): /hʌʊs/
  • Rhymes: -aʊs

Noun

house (countable and uncountable, plural houses or (dialectal) housen or (chiefly humorous) hice)

  2. A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings. [from 9th c.]
    1. (Hong Kong, only used in names) An apartment building within a public housing estate.
  4. A container; a thing which houses another.
  6. (uncountable) Size and quality of residential accommodations; housing.
  8. A building intended to contain a single household, as opposed to an apartment or condominium or building containing these.
    Coordinate terms: apartment, condo, condominium, flat
  10. The people who live in a house; a household. [from 9th c.]
  12. A building used for something other than a residence (typically with qualifying word). [from 10th c.]
    2. A place of business; a company or organisation, especially a printing press, a publishing company, or a couturier. [from 10th c.]
    4. A place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a public house, an inn, a restaurant, a theatre, or a casino; or the management thereof. [from 10th c.]
    5. (historical) A workhouse.
  13. The audience for a live theatrical or similar performance. [from 10th c.]
  14. (politics) A building where a deliberative assembly meets; whence the assembly itself, particularly a component of a legislature. [from 10th c.]
  15. A dynasty; a family with its ancestors and descendants, especially a royal or noble one. [from 10th c.]
  16. (figurative) A place of rest or repose. [from 9th c.]
  17. A grouping of schoolchildren for the purposes of competition in sports and other activities. [from 19th c.]
  18. An animal's shelter or den, or the shell of an animal such as a snail, used for protection. [from 10th c.]
  19. (astrology) One of the twelve divisions of an astrological chart. [from 14th c.]
  20. (cartomancy) The fourth Lenormand card.
  21. (chess, now rare) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. [from 16th c.]
  22. (curling) The four concentric circles where points are scored on the ice. [from 19th c.]
  23. Lotto; bingo. [from 20th c.]
  24. (uncountable) A children's game in which the players pretend to be members of a household.
  25. (US, dialect) A small stand of trees in a swamp.
  26. (sudoku) A set of cells in a sudoku puzzle which must contain each digit exactly once, such as a row, column, or 3×3 box.
Synonyms
  • (establishment): shop
  • (company or organisation): shop
Hypernyms
  • building
  • dwelling, residence
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Translations
Further reading
  • house on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • house (astrology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • house (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Middle English housen, from Old English hūsian, from Proto-Germanic *hūsōną (“to house, live, dwell”), from the noun (see above). Compare Dutch huizen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German Low German husen (“to live, dwell, reside”), German hausen (“to live, dwell, reside”), Norwegian Nynorsk husa (“to house”), Faroese húsa (“to house”), Icelandic húsa (“to shelter, house”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: houz, IPA(key): /haʊz/
  • Rhymes: -aʊs, -aʊz
  • Homophone: how's

Verb

house (third-person singular simple present houses, present participle housing, simple past and past participle housed)

  1. (transitive) To keep within a structure or container.
  2. (transitive) To admit to residence; to harbor.
  3. To take shelter or lodging; to abide; to lodge.
  4. (transitive, astrology) To dwell within one of the twelve astrological houses.
  5. (transitive) To contain or cover mechanical parts.
  6. (transitive) To contain one part of an object for the purpose of locating the whole.
  7. (obsolete) To drive to a shelter.
  8. (obsolete) To deposit and cover, as in the grave.
  9. (nautical) To stow in a safe place; to take down and make safe.
  11. (Canada, US, slang, transitive) To eat; especially, to scarf down.
    • 2019, Joe Lawson, Shameless (series 10, episode 4, "A Little Gallagher Goes a Long Way")
      All you wanna do is drink a fifth, house a lasagna, and hide in a dumpster until that baby stops crying.
Synonyms
  • (keep within a structure or container): store
  • (admit to residence): accommodate, harbor/harbour, host, put up
  • (contain or enclose mechanical parts): enclose
Derived terms
  • housable, unhousable
Translations

Etymology 3

Probably from The Warehouse, a nightclub in Chicago, Illinois, USA, where the music became popular around 1985.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: hous, IPA(key): /haʊs/

Noun

house (uncountable)

  2. (music) House music.
Descendants
Translations

Chinese

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

Noun

house

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) mansion; large house (Classifier: 間／间 c)

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɦou̯sɛ]

Etymology 1

Noun

house n

  1. gosling
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

house m inan

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
Declension

Further reading

  • house in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • house in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989
  • house in Internetová jazyková příručka

Dutch

Etymology

From English house. Doublet of huis and osso.

Pronunciation

Noun

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Finnish

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhɑu̯s/, [ˈhɑ̝u̯s̠]
  • Syllabification(key): hou‧se

Noun

house (uncountable)

  1. (music) house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Further reading

  • “house”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02

French

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /aws/

Noun

house f (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: house music

Anagrams

  • houes, houés

Hungarian

Etymology

From English house.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈhɒuz]
  • Hyphenation: house
  • Rhymes: -uz

Noun

house (plural house-ok)

  1. (music) house music, house (a type of electronic dance music with an uptempo beat and recurring kickdrum)

Declension

Derived terms

  • house-parti
  • house-zene

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

house

  1. Alternative form of hous

Etymology 2

Verb

house

  1. Alternative form of housen

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From English house, house music. Doublet of hus.

Noun

house m (indeclinable) (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Synonyms

  • housemusikk

References

  • “house” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From English house. Doublet of hus.

Noun

house m

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Polish

Etymology

Pseudo-anglicism, derived from house music.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /xaws/
  • Rhymes: -aws
  • Syllabification: house

Noun

house m inan

  1. house music, house (genre of music)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • house in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English house (music).

Noun

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: música house

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house.

Noun

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English house music.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈxaus/ [ˈxau̯s]
  • Rhymes: -aus

Noun

house m (uncountable)

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)
    Synonym: música house

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

Further reading

  • “house”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Etymology

From English house music.

Noun

house c

  1. house music, house (a genre of music)

Declension

Synonyms

  • housemusik, house-musik

Source: wiktionary.org