Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

one's house in order

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.34 in modern English

Syllables: one's -house- in order
IPA

20

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

phrase

One’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.

Example Sentences

"Make sure to keep your house in order."
"You have to get your house in order before you write the lease."
"You can get your financial house in order."
"[T]he group asked Mr. Musk for a multimonth moratorium on changes to Twitter’s policies and enforcement processes related to elections, hate speech and harassment — at least until the midterm election results were final and “he has his house in order,” Ms. Eisenstat said."

Inflected Forms

one's household in order (alternative)

Phrases

put one's house in order

Frequently Paired Words

put one's house in order

Questions

What does one's house in order mean?: One’s personal situation as it should be, with no problems.

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