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"dwelling" is also used as a crossword clue. If that's what you saw, the answer is often house (5 letters).
Definitions
housing that someone is living in
Word origin
From Middle English dwellynge, dwellyng (“delay, continuance, abode”), equivalent to dwell + -ing. More at dwell.
Used in a sentence
“The old house served as a dwelling for Albert.”
“For Philip's dwelling fronted on the street, / The latest house to landward; but behind, / With one small gate that open'd on the waste, / Flourish'd a little garden square and wall'd; [...]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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