Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

house poor

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.00 in modern English

Syllables: house- poor
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income.

Inflected Forms

house-poor (alternative)

Phrases

land poor

Frequently Paired Words

land poor

Questions

What does house poor mean?: In financial difficulty because of the excessive cost of owning a house, or because the cost of home ownership forms too high a proportion of household income.

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