housebreaking

Questions about housebreaking

What does housebreaking mean?

housebreaking means "trespassing for an unlawful purpose; illegal entrance into premises with criminal intent".

How many syllables are in housebreaking?

housebreaking has 5 syllables: ho-u-se-brea-king. The stress falls on "se".

What is another word for housebreaking?

Close synonyms include break-in, breaking and entering. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is housebreaking a common word?

housebreaking is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.