Plural of house
regular plural
The plural of house is houses.
Forms of house
| Singular | house /haʊ̯s/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | houses /ˈhaʊzɪz/ |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Less standard forms: housen (dialectal).
Houses in a sentence
- The big houses, and there are a good many of them, lie for the most part in what may be called by courtesy the valleys.1909 September 9, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], chapter III, in The Squire’s Daughter, London: Methuen & Co....
- Since there was a limited number of planets, houses and signs of the zodiac, the astrologers tended to reduce human potentialities to a set of fixed types and to postulate only a limited number of possible variations.1971, Sir Keith Vivian Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, The Folio Society, published 2012, →ISBN, page 313
- The houses looked very bright after they had whitewashed the whole neighbourhood.From the entry whitewash
- The string of houses at the end of Motter Avenue are having a block party.From the entry string
- In this place were put to the ground and salted the houses of José Mascarenhas.From the entry salt
Meaning of house
- noun A structure built or serving as an abode of human beings.
- noun An apartment building within a public housing estate.
- noun A container; a thing which houses another.
Questions about the plural of house
- What is the plural of house?
- The plural of house is houses.
- Is house countable?
- House is a countable and uncountable noun.
- Is housen correct?
- housen is marked dialectal in Wiktionary. The usual plural of house is houses.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: house (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Cite this page: “Plural of house.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/plural/house. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.