hotel
ho·tel/həʊˈtɛl/noun
hotel is spelled H-O-T-E-L: 5 letters and 2 syllables (ho·tel). It appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). People search “hotel vs motel” about 5,400 times a month (Google, United States). As a noun, hotel means “A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of hotel is hotels.
How many letters and syllables are in hotel?
| Letters | 5: H-O-T-E-L |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 2: ho·tel |
| In writing | 89 times per million words; the 1,191st most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | none measured in search |
| Pairs people search | |
| Rhymes with | |
| Same letters |
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); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How common is hotel?
Hotel appears 89 times per million words in written English, the 1,191st 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 hotel?
- UK /həʊˈtɛl/
- UK /əʊˈtɛl/
- /hɒˈtɛl/
Hotel has 2 syllables, split ho·tel in writing.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: En-us-hotel.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Words people confuse with hotel
Word pairs people search, with the monthly searches for “a vs b” (G: Google, B: Bing, United States).
Sources: Google and Bing searches (September 2025 to August 2026, through DataForSEO); English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).
What rhymes with hotel?
6 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as hotel from its last stressed vowel (/ɛl/, British pronunciation):
Spelled with the same letters in another order: thole, helot.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
Forms of hotel
- hotels plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does hotel mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A large town house or mansion; a grand private residence, especially in France.
- 2
An establishment that provides accommodation and other services for paying guests; normally larger than a guesthouse, and often one of a chain.
- 3
AustraliaCanadaA public house or pub.
- 4
A restaurant; any dining establishment.
- 5
Alternative letter-case form of Hotel from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- 6
The larger red property in the game of Monopoly, in contradistinction to houses.
- 7
The guest accommodation and dining section of a cruise ship.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Hotel in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense establishment providing accommodation:
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 hotel come from?
Borrowed from French hôtel, from Middle French hostel, from Old French ostel, from Late Latin hospitālis (“hospice, shelter, guesthouse”), from Latin hospitālis (“hospitable”). Doublet of hostel and hospital.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).