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Definition: Henhouse |
HenhouseNoun1. A farm building for housing poultry. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "henhouse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1899. (references) |
Synonyms: HenhouseSynonyms: chicken coop (n), coop (n), hencoop (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Henhouse |
| English words defined with "henhouse": Henhouses. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | What I want out of each and every one of you is a hard target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse, and doghouse in that area. (The Fugitive; writing credit: Jeb Stuart, David Twohy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Henhouse Henery (1949) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Henhouse of a poultry cooperative society near Stevensville, New York.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Improvised henhouse of sharecroppers, Southeast Missouri Farms.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Detail of henhouse and pigeon cote. Mays Avenue camp, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Henhouse" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Henhouse" is used about 12 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 12 | 101,599 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
henhouse | 12 |
henhouse plan | 3 |
henhouse marys | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "henhouse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | qymez (hencoop), kotec (Cote, hencoop, hutch, pen, roost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kurník (coop, hen coop, hen house, hencoop, Hennery, poultry house). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | hühnerstall (chicken coop, hen house, roost), hühnerhaus (chicken coop, roost), weiberwirtschaft, stall (barn, barnstable, byre, coop, Cote, cow barn, cow kennel, cowhouse, cowshed, hutch, Mews, pen, pigpen, pigsty, shed, stable, stable-hole, stall, stud, sty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tyúkól (chicken coop, chicken pen, hen house, Hennery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 鳥小屋 (aviary), 鳥屋 (bird dealer, chicken coop, poulterer). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とり"や (aviary), とや (chicken coop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enhousehay lebreiro (harris tweed). (various references) курятник (chicken coop, co op, hencoop, hen-coop, hen-house, hennery, roost). (various references) kokošinjac (chicken coop, coop, hen house, hencoop, pen, roost). (various references) gallinero (chickencoop, chick-run, coop, gods, hencoop, hen-coop, hen-house, hennery, peanut gallery, pen, poultry house, poultry-house, roost). (various references) hönshus (hen house, roost). (various references) курник (coop, hencoop, roost). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "henhouse": henhouses. (additional references) | |
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"Henhouse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: henouse, hiphouse. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "henhouse" (pronounced he"nhou's) |
| 4 | -n h ou' s | greenhouse, townhouse. |
| 3 | -h ou' s | alehouse, boardinghouse, boathouse, clearinghouse, clubhouse, coffeehouse, courthouse, doghouse, dollhouse, farmhouse, firehouse, guesthouse, hothouse, jailhouse, lighthouse, longhouse, madhouse, outhouse, packinghouse, penthouse, Playhouse, poorhouse, powerhouse, roadhouse, roundhouse, schoolhouse, slaughterhouse, statehouse, steakhouse, storehouse, warehouse, whorehouse. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-h-h-n-o-s-u" | |
-3 letters: ensue, hones, hosen, house, sheen, shone. | |
-4 letters: eons, hehs, hens, hoes, hone, hons, hose, hues, hunh, huns, hush, noes, nose, nosh, nous, ones, onus, seen, sene, shoe, shun, sone. | |
-5 letters: ens, eon, heh, hen, hes, hoe, hon, hue, huh, hun, nee, noh, nos, nus, oes, ohs, one, ons, ose, see, sen, she, shh, son, sou, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-h-h-n-o-s-u" | |
+1 letter: henhouses. | |
+3 letters: hypothenuse. | |
+4 letters: honeybunches, hypothenuses. | |
+5 letters: thundershower. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 65 6E 68 6F 75 73 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -. .... --- ..- ... . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01100101 01101110 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H e n h o u s e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0065 006E 0068 006F 0075 0073 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4271807481878571 |
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