city hall
/ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/
"city-hall" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“city hall” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The building that houses a city's government.
Corpus desk
Index EN-city-hall · city hall · English
city hall · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "C" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | city hall |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “city hall” in English
Rare enough to double-check
city hall is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsɪti ˌhɔːl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
city hall has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is city hall, spelled C-I-T-Y- -H-A-L-L.
Definition
- 1The building that houses a city's government.
- 2The city government (city council, mayor, etc.); government in general.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how city hall appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Near-synonym: town hall
A new city hall was built after the big fire of 1883.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.