hospitable
hos·pit·a·ble/hɑsˈpɪtəbl̩/adjective
hospitable is spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-B-L-E, 4 syllables: hos·pit·a·ble. The wrong spelling people search most is hospitible: about 40 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 68 of all searches for the word. Hospitable is an adjective meaning “cordial and generous towards guests”.
How many letters and syllables are in hospitable?
| Letters | 10: H-O-S-P-I-T-A-B-L-E |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4: hos·pit·a·ble |
| In writing | about once in every 1 million words; the 30,418th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, hospitible, about 40 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell hospitable?
Hospitable is spelled H-O-S-P-I-T-A-B-L-E. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 68 of the searches for hospitable in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is hospitable?
Hospitable appears about once in every 1 million words in written English, the 30,418th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce hospitable?
- UK /hɒsˈpɪtəbl̩/
- US /hɑsˈpɪtəbl̩/
- US /ˈhɑspɪtəbl̩/
Hospitable has 4 syllables, split hos·pit·a·ble in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vininn126-hospitable.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of hospitable
- more hospitable comparative
- most hospitable superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hospitable mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
adjective
- 1
cordial and generous towards guests
hospitable family
- 2
receptive and open-minded
- 3
favorable
- 4
favorable for life; livable; suitable for life.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hospitable in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense cordial and generous towards guests:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | hospitalier |
| German | gastfreundlich, gastfrei |
| Portuguese | hospitaleiro |
| Spanish | hospitalario, hospitable |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does hospitable come from?
Borrowed from Middle French hospitable, formed from the root of Latin hospitare with the suffix -able. Displaced native Old English cumlīþe (literally “guest-gentle”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).