Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

sheephouse

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: sheep-house
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A roofed enclosure for sheep.

Example Sentences

"The sheep are afterwards driven into an unpastured adjoining meadow, and remain there (to prevent their soiling themselves in the sheephouse) a day and night, […]"

Etymology

From sheep + house.

Inflected Forms

sheephouses (plural)

Questions

What does sheephouse mean?: A roofed enclosure for sheep.
Where does sheephouse come from?: From sheep + house.

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