household: meaning and words from its letters
9 letters · 16 letter points · starts with H · ends with D
Meaning of household
noun
- collective
All the persons who live in a given house or other home; a family including attendants, servants etc.; a domestic or family establishment.
Entirety of work and management required to sustain the household.
Legal or culturally determined unit of people living together.
- obsolete
A line of ancestry; a race or house.
Listed forms: households.
Source: Wiktionary — household.
adj
- not-comparable
Belonging to the same house and family.
- not-comparable
Found in or having its origin in a home.
- not-comparable
Widely known to the public; familiar.
Example: a household word; a household name
Source: Wiktionary — household.
Adapted from Wiktionary contributors via Kaikki.org. Selected senses and forms; quotations omitted. Definition text is CC BY-SA 4.0.
Synonyms by meaning
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noun
a social unit living together
Open English WordNet Team, 2025, derived from Princeton University WordNet; selected synonym groups under CC BY 4.0. Source · OEWN notice · Princeton notice.
Is household in our word lists?
| Word list | Status |
|---|---|
| American English | Found |
| British English | Found |
| Extended English | Found |
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Letter-value score of household
H(4) + O(1) + U(1) + S(1) + E(1) + H(4) + O(1) + L(1) + D(2) = 16 points.
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Anagrams of household
0 other standard-list words use exactly these letters, including repeated letters.
No other single-word anagram was found in our standard list.
Shorter words from household
135 shorter standard-list words can be made using no letter more often than it occurs in household. Showing up to 24, longest first.